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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Pagina 6
... moral or a learned poet, merely that they were not anxious to press the point. The inane jingle by Churchyard (No. 7b) may indicate how much was taken for granted, and Barnfield the sentimentalist also admits the appeal of the deep ...
... moral or a learned poet, merely that they were not anxious to press the point. The inane jingle by Churchyard (No. 7b) may indicate how much was taken for granted, and Barnfield the sentimentalist also admits the appeal of the deep ...
Pagina 8
... moral characterizations or the moral elucidation of episodes, and the identification of topical allusions. That this last category is especially favoured may serve as a warning to those modern critics who like to think of it as trivial ...
... moral characterizations or the moral elucidation of episodes, and the identification of topical allusions. That this last category is especially favoured may serve as a warning to those modern critics who like to think of it as trivial ...
Pagina 12
... moral law and philosophical lore . When Henry Bold calls him ' our Platonicke Spenser ' he only echoes the opinion of Platonist Cambridge.53 A third indication , already partly suggested , is the extent to which Spenser was in principle ...
... moral law and philosophical lore . When Henry Bold calls him ' our Platonicke Spenser ' he only echoes the opinion of Platonist Cambridge.53 A third indication , already partly suggested , is the extent to which Spenser was in principle ...
Pagina 14
... moral interpretation . That tendency to read almost exclusively as moral allegory , observable from the first , increases throughout the century . Milton ( No. 74 ) , and More ( No. 82 ) even as a child , both celebrate Spenser's ...
... moral interpretation . That tendency to read almost exclusively as moral allegory , observable from the first , increases throughout the century . Milton ( No. 74 ) , and More ( No. 82 ) even as a child , both celebrate Spenser's ...
Pagina 17
... morality, his noble speeches, his beautiful allegories and most of all his pictorial sense. Hughes is the first modern critic of Spenser. There is no room here to estimate what damage he may have done. VI LANGUAGE Comments on Spenser's ...
... morality, his noble speeches, his beautiful allegories and most of all his pictorial sense. Hughes is the first modern critic of Spenser. There is no room here to estimate what damage he may have done. VI LANGUAGE Comments on Spenser's ...
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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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