The productions of these later years took for the most part a didactic rather than a descriptive form.
The Excursion, in short, has the drawbacks of a didactic poem as compared with lyrical poems; but, judged as a didactic poem, it has the advantage of containing teaching of true and permanent value.
His comment on Barns's Tam o' Shanter will perhaps surprise some readers who are accustomed to think of him only in his didactic attitude.
For them, too, history was a literary art with apologetic aims ordidactic pretensions.
Ethic on itsdidactic side is outside his business altogether.
We have taken liberties with our subject matter that would not be tolerated in a didactic treatise, but to which surely no one will object.
The terminology of the driest didactic texts is saturated with mythology.
The Didactic Books= comprise the epistles; and these we may arrange thus: (1.
As in the novel, there are plots within the plot, and didacticpassages are woven into the play without in the least disturbing its unity.
With him the last spark of the didactic ideals of the Haskala has entirely vanished.
They are written in a good vernacular, but are devoid of interest, as the didactic element outweighs the plot, and the latter is very loosely developed.
Were it not for the many didactic passages which the author has interwoven in the second part of his story, it might easily be counted among the most perfect productions of Jewish literature.
But he was too much of an artist by nature to persevere in his didactic attitude, and before long he abandoned entirely that field, to devote his undivided energy to the production of purely artistic works.
It is art, if you like, but it belongs purely to didactic art, and from all the novels I have read (and I have read thousands) stands in a place by itself.
It is in books more specifically didacticthat we can follow out the effect, and distinguish and weigh and compare.
That a didactic element entered the deluge-tradition but slowly, may be surmised, not only from the genuinely old N.
Its force, eloquence and ingenuity, the orderly and lucid arrangement of its matter, place it among the finest of English didactic poems.
Didactic poetry is my abhorrence; nothing can be equally well expressed in prose that is not tedious and supererogatory in verse.
His moral Essays in the Citizen of the World, are as agreeable chit-chat as can be conveyed in the form of didactic discourses.
In this strain of didacticor sentimental moralising, the lines to Glencairn are the most happy, and impressive.
But the narrative here becomes too engrossing to admit of large admixtures of didactic matter.
Didactic poetry is a mistake if not a contradiction in terms.
It suited well an age which, while far from moral, delighted in moral treatises and in didactic verse.
But poetry is not necessarily didactic because its subject is philosophical.
Their Recitativi, almost invariably, are didacticor exegetical.
The tone of them, however, is warmer, more personal, lessdidactic than the Weiss texts.
It was, no doubt, the didactic and patronising tone adopted towards the author which excited Coleridge's indignation.
But the didactic purpose is never lost sight of by the author.
Like the earlier work, the 'Essay on Man' is a didactic poem, written primarily to diffuse and popularize certain ideas of the poet.
I should maintain this generalisation even in the presence of that apparent exception The Christmas Carol with its trio of didactic ghosts.
There was never a more didactic writer: hence there was never one more amusing.
Where the writer is dominated by only one aim, in satire, the correction of morals; in didactic verse, instruction; there is no conflict and therefore no poetry.
Didactic pedantry has its place in science, and these were scientists, not vaudeville performers.
Man might be too didacticin requiring that awareness develop a physical science comparable to his own, but surely awareness, whatever form it took, would know the circle.
Sententious in her didactic passages, she is pure and noble in her sentiment, poetical and impressive in her descriptions of nature.
But in her essays she is less wise, less racy and expressive, than in the didactic passages of her novels.
She was no stoic, no teacher of moral precepts, no didactic debater about moral duties, no mere dilettante advocate of human rights.
Any other attitude than this argues something less than genius, though genius may be far fromdidactic and not given to preaching.
In order, however, to emphasize the importance of imagination, by which he largely means the imagistic liveliness of the poet’s mind, he allows that the imagination is secondary only in didactic or ethical poetry.
Indeed the avowedly didactic purpose of the moralist seems at times to cloud a little the fine perception of the artist.
Your didactic prose is a wain, pulled over the hard city street.
