Studies in the Literature of the Augustan Age: Essays Collected in Honor of Arthur Ellicott Case |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 12
Page 286
... epic poetry , but there is no one to follow it.16 In the mind of " W. J. , " who translated Le Bossu's treatise on the epic , there was no doubt about the efficacy of the rules . In enumerating various reasons for the low state of epic ...
... epic poetry , but there is no one to follow it.16 In the mind of " W. J. , " who translated Le Bossu's treatise on the epic , there was no doubt about the efficacy of the rules . In enumerating various reasons for the low state of epic ...
Page 288
... heroic poetry as bombast . Such critics had better doubt their own judgment than that of Homer , or Virgil , or Milton . It is true , says Dryden , there are limits to which the poetic spirit may range , " but he must understand those ...
... heroic poetry as bombast . Such critics had better doubt their own judgment than that of Homer , or Virgil , or Milton . It is true , says Dryden , there are limits to which the poetic spirit may range , " but he must understand those ...
Page 301
... epic poetry , in which he showed himself an im- placable enemy of the accepted rules and rule - makers , especially Boileau and Le Bossu . Boileau , he says , had elegance and judg- ment , but his remarks on epic poetry might well have ...
... epic poetry , in which he showed himself an im- placable enemy of the accepted rules and rule - makers , especially Boileau and Le Bossu . Boileau , he says , had elegance and judg- ment , but his remarks on epic poetry might well have ...
Contents
The Beggars Opera | 14 |
The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
Suggestions toward a Genealogy of The Man of Feeling | 61 |
Copyright | |
12 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Achitophel Alexander Pope Amelia Anna Seward appear Aristotle Arthur Ault Beggar's Opera benevolence Booth catalogues character Charity Charles Chaucer Christian Clarissa classic comic concerning criticism derision divines documents Dryden edition eighteenth century English epic epic poetry epigram Essay ethical example Fable fact Faerie Queene feeling Gay's Gulliver's Travels Harriet Hobbes human nature Ibid imagination Isaac Barrow John John Dryden Johnson Jonathan Swift judgment King Lady laws letters lines literary London Lucy Macheath Mandeville Mandeville's manuscripts Matthew Prior ments mind misanthropy miscellany modern moral neo-classic original Pamela parallel passage passions Peachum phrase pleasure poem poet poetry Polly Pope Pope's principles printed Prior Rambler rational reason rhyme Richardson rigoristic rules satire satirist says seems sense Sermon Spenser story Swift theory thing Thomas Warton tion truth University utilitarian verse virtue volume Warton Welbeck Abbey words writing wrote