...the metaphysical poets, on whom he was severe. The sentence from which Eliot quotes reads in full: "The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons and allusions; their learning instructs and their subtlety...

...upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...unlike. Of wit thus defined they have more than enough. (9) It is fascinating to see how Johnson touches with such inadvertent penetration all the keys that...

...nature nor life, neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. . . . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety...

...discordant harmony (or, harmonious discord), Latin; defined by Samuel Johnson in his Life ofCowley (1779) as "a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." The tempering of opposed qualities, or mixing of various contrasting elements to form a unity, was...