 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 118 pages
...reader. The play, he says, 'fillfs] the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope. . .So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination...the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along.'3 The comment seems particularly applicable to the final scene, and it is this... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination...the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along. On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct it may be observed that he is represented... | |
 | Jane Adamson, Richard Freadman, David Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 308 pages
...'agitates our passions', and 'fills the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity and hope. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination,...the mind, which once ventures within it, is hurried irresistibly along.' Johnson's inextricable mix of passive and active images of the mind - 'it fills... | |
 | Susan Bruce - Drama - 1998 - 196 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination,...the mind, which once ventures within it, is hurried irresistibly along. On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct it may be observed, that he is represented... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 240 pages
...reader. The play, he says, 'fillfs] the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope ... So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination...the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along.'3 The comment seems particularly applicable to the final scene, and it is this... | |
 | Maynard Mack - Drama - 2005 - 144 pages
...Royal in Covent Garden (1768), pv This published version retains Tate's ending. 27 Op. cit., IV, 206. current of the poet's imagination that the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along.28 When we place beside this a passage from Hazlitt's review of Edmund Kean's production... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination,...the mind, which once ventures within it, is hurried irresistibly along. On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct, it may be observed that he is represented... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 1018 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the Poet's imagination,...the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along. '< On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct, il may b» observed, thai he... | |
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There is no scene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination, that the mind which once... 
