I much wonder that you should listen to the idea, that a fondness for Italian poetry is the corruption of our taste, when you cannot but recollect that our greatest English poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton have been professed admirers of the Italians,... Works - Page 22edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
| Henry Francis Cary - 1847 - 542 pages
...further light on his pursuits at this important period of a student's life. TO MISS SEWARD. Ch. Ch., Oxford, May 7, 1792. DEAR MADAM, As I expect my father...us, according to the degree of estimation in which t hey have been held. The poetry of the French is diametrically opposite to that of the Italians :... | |
| Henry Francis Cary - 1847 - 740 pages
...pursuits at this important period of a student's life. TO MISS SEWARD. C7i. Ch., Oxford, May 7, 1 792. DEAR MADAM, As I expect my father will soon pass through...us, according to the degree of estimation in which ttiey have been held. The poetry of the French is diametrically opposite to that of the Italians :... | |
| Paget Jackson Toynbee - Comparative literature - 1909 - 784 pages
...LETTER TO MISS AKNA SEWARD (from Christ Church, Oxford). [Gary advises his correspondent to read Dante] I MUCH wonder that you should listen to the idea,...degree of estimation in which they have been held. . . . Give a few months to the acquisition of Italian ; go and see the wonders of Dante's Inferno,... | |
| Robert Wylie King - 1925 - 394 pages
...already formed ; moreover he was no longer in awe of the Swan. He makes short work of her " authority " : I much wonder that you should listen to the idea,...degree of estimation in which they have been held. He goes on to explain, very sensibly, that the prejudice against Italian poetry (which Miss Seward,... | |
| Robert Wylie King - 1925 - 394 pages
...already formed ; moreover he was no longer in awe of the Swan. He makes short work of her " authority " : I much wonder that you should listen to the idea,...cannot but recollect that our greatest English poets, Ghaucer, Spenser, and Milton, have been professed admirers of the Italians, and that the sublimer province... | |
| Chaucer Society (London, England) - 1921 - 666 pages
...Seward, [dated] 7 May 1792, [printed in] Memoir of the Rev. HF Cary, 1847, 2 vols., vol. i, p. 42. Our greatest English poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and...Milton, have been professed admirers of the Italians. [For Miss Seward's letter in reply to this, see above, pt. i, p. 494.] [1792.] Maeklin, . Proposals... | |
| Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1925 - 386 pages
...Seward, [dated] 7 May 1792, [printed in] Memoir of the Rev. HF Cary, 1847, 2 vols., vol. i, p. 42. Our greatest English poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and...Milton, have been professed admirers of the Italians. [For Miss Ssward's Utter in replj to this, see above, pt. i, p. -191. 1 [1792.] Macklin, . Proposals... | |
| Edoardo Crisafulli - History - 2003 - 364 pages
...(ibid: 57). On May 7, 1792 Gary, after reading Miss Seward's letters, replied with a eulogy of Dante: I much wonder that you should listen to the idea,...cannot but recollect that our greatest English poets, Ghaucer, Spenser, and Milton have been professed admirers of the Italians, and that the sublimer province... | |
| Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 390 pages
...Seward, [dated] 7 May 1792, [printed in] Memoir of the Rev. HF Gary, 1847, 2 vols., vol. i, p. 42. Our greatest English poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and...Milton, have been professed admirers of the Italians. lFor Min Saward'i letter In reply to thli, лл above, pt. i, p. 4M.] [1792.] Macklin, . Propoxdi for... | |
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