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... poetry . In " A Parallel of Poetry and Painting " ( 1695 ) he defends rules as being rational , because they are founded on nature : the way to please being to imitate nature , both the poets and the painters in ancient times , and in ...
... poetry . In " A Parallel of Poetry and Painting " ( 1695 ) he defends rules as being rational , because they are founded on nature : the way to please being to imitate nature , both the poets and the painters in ancient times , and in ...
Page 293
... poetry at Oxford and translator of Virgil , also objected to a complete subjection to authority , though he did not believe that poetry can be free of all rules . In speaking of his own criticism he declares that he has examined various ...
... poetry at Oxford and translator of Virgil , also objected to a complete subjection to authority , though he did not believe that poetry can be free of all rules . In speaking of his own criticism he declares that he has examined various ...
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... poetry , and he can see no sense in the argument concerning art and nature in a poet , for art is " Nature reduc'd to Form . " It is all very well for the man of genius to exercise his natural abilities , but he must at the same time ...
... poetry , and he can see no sense in the argument concerning art and nature in a poet , for art is " Nature reduc'd to Form . " It is all very well for the man of genius to exercise his natural abilities , but he must at the same time ...
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The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
The Nature of Dr Johnsons Rationalism | 88 |
Thomas Warton and the Eighteenth Century Dilemma | 104 |
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