 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...snatched and consumed. The imagination is a hungry hunter. In an earlier preface, Dryden had said that "Imagination in a Poet is a faculty so Wild and Lawless that, like an High-ranging Spaniel it must have Cloggs tied to it, least it out-run the Judgment" ("To the Right Honourable Roger, Earl of Orrery,"... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - Idealism - 1987 - 384 pages
...Drydens, die den Einsatz des Endreimes damit rechtfertigen, daß so die "fancy" im Zaum zu halten sei: For Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like a highranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgement.1" 3. Die natürliche... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...reappears in John Dryden's earliest piece of criticism, the dedication of his play The Rival Ladies (1664): 'imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless...clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment'. The very first sentence of that same dedication offers a less fanciful but more telling and mysterious... | |
 | John Sallis - Philosophy - 1995 - 276 pages
...the inclosures of regularity. 4 Or again, it is expressed in Dryden's warning that Imagination ... is a faculty so Wild and Lawless, that, like an high-ranging Spaniel it must have Cloggs tied to it, least it out-run the Judgment. 5 Or finally, Shakespeare, again through the mouth... | |
 | John Dryden - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 389 pages
...Rhodes Q1-4, F, D. ness of the Answer, and the Sweetness of the Rhyme, set off the Beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because I have not seldome found it, is, that it Bounds and Circumscribes the Fancy. For Imagination in a Poet is a faculty... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 358 pages
...in turn makes their proper interaction possible: [T]hat benefit which I consider most in it [rhyme] ...is, that it Bounds and Circumscribes the Fancy....Lawless, that, like an High-ranging Spaniel it must have Cloggs tied to it, least it out-run the Judgment. The great easiness of Blanck Verse, renders the Poet... | |
 | Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...that framework invasive. John Dryden, a contemporary, was appalled by Milton's choice. Dryden wrote, "For imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and...high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, less it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant." Even... | |
 | Larry E. Shiner - Art - 2001 - 386 pages
...England's poet laureate, John Dryden, "imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment" (Dryden 1961, 8).2 The notion of invention, derived from rhetoric, also lacked the crucial modern elements... | |
 | Larry Shiner - Art - 2001 - 384 pages
...declared it liable to fanaticism, madness, or illusion. According to England's poet laureate, John Dryden, "imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment" (Dryden 1961, 8).2... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 322 pages
...suddain Smartness of the Answer, and the Sweetness of the Rhyme, set off the Beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because I have not seldome found it, is, that it Bounds and Circumscribes the Fancy. For Imagination in a Poet is a faculty... | |
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For imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. 
