If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither... Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets - Стр. 38 авторы: Samuel Johnson - 1779 Полный просмотр -
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