An Essay of Dramatic Poesy: A Defence of an Essay of Dramatic PoesyBobbs-Merrill, 1965 - 119 páginas This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Clarendon Press in 1889 in 177 pages; Subjects: Drama; Drama / General; Drama / American; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism / Drama; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Performing Arts / Theater / Playwriting; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; |
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... Shakespeare as the poet of nature : " If I would com- pare him with Shakespeare , I must acknowledge him [ Jonson ] the more correct poet , but Shakespeare the greater wit . Shake- speare was the Homer , or father of our dramatic poets ...
... Shakespeare as the poet of nature : " If I would com- pare him with Shakespeare , I must acknowledge him [ Jonson ] the more correct poet , but Shakespeare the greater wit . Shake- speare was the Homer , or father of our dramatic poets ...
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... Shakespeare ? ' If they content themselves , as Corneille did , with some flat design , which , like an ill riddle , is found out ere it be half proposed , such plots we can make every way regular , as easily as they ; but whene'er they ...
... Shakespeare ? ' If they content themselves , as Corneille did , with some flat design , which , like an ill riddle , is found out ere it be half proposed , such plots we can make every way regular , as easily as they ; but whene'er they ...
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... Shakespeare . He was the man who of all modern , and perhaps ancient poets , had the largest and most comprehensive soul . All the images of Nature were still present to him , and he drew them , not laboriously , but luck- ily ; when he ...
... Shakespeare . He was the man who of all modern , and perhaps ancient poets , had the largest and most comprehensive soul . All the images of Nature were still present to him , and he drew them , not laboriously , but luck- ily ; when he ...
Contenido
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 3 |
A Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 73 |
Preface to the Fables | 94 |
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Términos y frases comunes
acknowledge action admiration Aeneid answer argument Aristotle Art of Poetry audience Bartholomew Fair beauties Ben Johnson Berkeley betwixt blank verse Boccace CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Canterbury Tales Catiline characters Chaucer Comedy commend compass concernment confess Corneille Crites criticism delight discourse Dramatic Poesy Duke of Lerma endeavour English epic Essay of Dramatic Eugenius excellent fancy farther faults Fletcher French genius greater Homer honour Horace humour ibid imagination imitation of Nature John Dryden Johnson judge judgment kind language Latin leave Lisideius lived Neander never numbers observed opinion Ovid passions persons Plautus pleasing plot poem poet Preface prose prove reader reason represented rest rhyme Roman rule satire scene Sejanus Seneca sense serious plays Shakespeare Silent Woman speak stage story supposed Tale Terence things thoughts tion Tis true tragedies translated truth Unity of Place UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unnatural Velleius Paterculus Virgil words writ write