Edmund Spencer: The Critical HeritageR. M. Cummings Routledge, 14 okt 2020 - 376 pagina's This book examines Edmund Spenser's essays. It presents the criticisms of John Dryden, which are determined by his own preoccupations than by his reading of other critics, and contains three larger sections (covering the periods 1579-1600, 1600-1660, 1660-1715) into which all this material falls. |
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... Italy or even in France it would have been different . But in England the criticism of vernacular poetry was simply not such an industry then as it was on the Continent . That does not make its errors ( when it is certain that they are ...
... Italy or even in France it would have been different . But in England the criticism of vernacular poetry was simply not such an industry then as it was on the Continent . That does not make its errors ( when it is certain that they are ...
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... Italian literary criticism they cannot be gone into here.55 His critics of the mid - seventeenth century were not by and large prepared to accept the earlier view . By no obvious formal criteria is Spenser comparable with Virgil , and ...
... Italian literary criticism they cannot be gone into here.55 His critics of the mid - seventeenth century were not by and large prepared to accept the earlier view . By no obvious formal criteria is Spenser comparable with Virgil , and ...
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... as unsympathetic class him with Italian rather than with the ancient poets . The consequences of this procedure are more clearly seen in the period after 1660 . V THE PERIOD 1660–17I5 There are few critics after the 14 INTRODUCTION.
... as unsympathetic class him with Italian rather than with the ancient poets . The consequences of this procedure are more clearly seen in the period after 1660 . V THE PERIOD 1660–17I5 There are few critics after the 14 INTRODUCTION.
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... Italians, but he does make clear that Spenser is not entirely depraved by them: he is free, as he points out, from their use of false wit (No. 114b). These are novel moves in the game of comparisons. They make Spenser, a poet sui ...
... Italians, but he does make clear that Spenser is not entirely depraved by them: he is free, as he points out, from their use of false wit (No. 114b). These are novel moves in the game of comparisons. They make Spenser, a poet sui ...
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... Italians. This feeling is however differently rationalized. Hughes finds that the stanza tends to monotony (No. 159), while Dennis finds it tends to the lyrical (No. 166b). Both statements might be true: the different emphasis derives ...
... Italians. This feeling is however differently rationalized. Hughes finds that the stanza tends to monotony (No. 159), while Dennis finds it tends to the lyrical (No. 166b). Both statements might be true: the different emphasis derives ...
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THE PERIOD 15791600 | 28 |
OBITUARY VERSE | 94 |
THE PERIOD 16001660 | 112 |
THE PERIOD 16601715 | 200 |
LANGUAGE AND STYLE | 279 |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES | 325 |
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