...admiration, the same glorious delight when they meet with great poets. And this is Pope's theory of Homer : ' It is to the strength of this amazing invention we...he writes is of the most animated nature imaginable ; everything moves, everything lives and is put in action. If a council be called or a battle fought,...

...admiration, the same glorious delight when they meet with great poets. And this is Pope's theory of Homer : ' It is to the strength of this amazing invention we...writes is of the most animated nature imaginable; everything moves, everything lives and is put in action. If a council be called or a battle fought,...

...much the same meaning as that which AVO now express by the term constructive or vital imagination. " It is to the strength of this amazing invention we...poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. Everything moves, everything lives and is put in action ; the reader is hurried out of himself by the...

...the rapture and fir§ which carries you away with him with the wonderful force that no man who has a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. Homer makes you interested and concerned before you are aware, all at once, whereas Virgil does it...

...accusations unfair. Compare these passages and the notions of literary criticism which lie behind them. 36 A It is to the Strength of this amazing Invention we are to attribute that Unequal'd Fire and Rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that no Man of a true Poetical Spirit is...

...of the epic is directed to the creating of enormous meaning, so forcible, as Pope said of the Iliad, that "no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads. . . . Everything moves, everything lives, and is put in action. . . . The reader is hurry'd out of...

...been acknowledged the greatest of Poets'. Taking up Dryden's remarks on Homer's fire, Pope declares: 'It is to the Strength of this amazing Invention we are to attribute that unequal'd Fire and Rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that no Man of a true Poetical Spirit is...

...performer. For there is something powerful in his song, "that unequal'd Fire and Rapture" — Pope again — "which is so forcible in Homer, that no Man of a true Poetical Spirit is Master of himself while he experiences the Iliad. "In Homer, and in him only, it burns every where clearly, and every where irresistibly."...

...inventio, the discovery of material), for he saw nature with such clarity and reported it with such force that "no Man of a true Poetical Spirit is Master of himself while he reads him" (Poems, vol. Vn, p. 4). Homer indeed saw the animation of the material world ("An Arrow is impatient...

...to the strength of this amazing invention," Pope writes in 1715, "we are to attribute that unequaled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer that...poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him."19 Ten years later, Pope singles out originality as Shakespeare's defining trait. "If ever any...