| William Shakespeare - 1992 - 324 lapas
...from a perfect world who has strayed into a lesser one, and has to adjust to different principles. 'Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry...sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden' (Apology, p.... | |
| Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 lapas
...Paetry: that literature can outbid reality and depict a world lovelier than any which we can know: 'Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry...done, neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet smelling flowers, not whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world... | |
| W. Daniel Wilson, Robert C. Holub - 1993 - 508 lapas
...concentrated form, Sidney, truer to the Platonic tradition, is arguing that nature is actually surpassed by poetry: Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much... | |
| Chris Fitter - 1995 - 358 lapas
...as a speculum vivens, whose simulacra surpass the naturalia of sense-perception. In Sidney's terms : Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry...sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.270 Moreover,... | |
| Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 lapas
...enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging only within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry...done, neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may take the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world... | |
| Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 lapas
...ways of creating an art which can exist within the mutable, 'brazen world' of nature. Sidney claims: 'Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done . . . Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden'.6 Shakespeare's drama privileges the living... | |
| Blair Worden, William Worden - 1996 - 444 lapas
...by Pyrocles on 'this desert' echo and confirm the passage in the Defence where Sidney explains that 'nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done'.137 For the lovers of the Arcadia, 'poets to a man' as Richard Lanham 126 OA 9/5-7, 13/15, 16/9.... | |
| Marina Leslie - 1998 - 228 lapas
...certain antagonism between art and nature. According to Sidney, the poet's art is unparalleled in nature: "Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much... | |
| Peter Faulkner, Peter Preston, William Morris Society - 1999 - 328 lapas
...complaint. In Defence of Poesie Sir Philip Sidney writes: 'Nature never set forth the earth in so rich a tapestry as divers poets have done — neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet- smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make this too much loved earth more lovely. Her world... | |
| Peter Elmer, Nick Webb, Roberta Wood, Nicholas Webb - 2000 - 428 lapas
...enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but fteely ranging only within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry...sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.' But let those... | |
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