The Critical Works of John Dennis, 2. köideJohns Hopkins Press, 1964 |
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... poet without originality is a cold versifier . Perhaps the most interesting of Dennis's views concerning poetic style is one which in a way anticipates Coleridge : that in great poetry we find an organic unity of subject , spirit , and ...
... poet without originality is a cold versifier . Perhaps the most interesting of Dennis's views concerning poetic style is one which in a way anticipates Coleridge : that in great poetry we find an organic unity of subject , spirit , and ...
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... poetic justice , specifically in Othello ( cf. Spingarn , 11 , 220-221 , 252-255 ) . Against Rymer's objections Gildon and other critics rose to the defence of the play ( cf. note on II , 7. 13 ) . There are few plays of Shakespeare ...
... poetic justice , specifically in Othello ( cf. Spingarn , 11 , 220-221 , 252-255 ) . Against Rymer's objections Gildon and other critics rose to the defence of the play ( cf. note on II , 7. 13 ) . There are few plays of Shakespeare ...
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... poetic fire caused by great ideas , II , 367 : poetic fire more common than regularity , 11 , 366 : poetic style distinguished from prosaic , II , 123 : possible without metre , 1 , 215 : power of arousing transport , 1 , 3 ; II , 379 ...
... poetic fire caused by great ideas , II , 367 : poetic fire more common than regularity , 11 , 366 : poetic style distinguished from prosaic , II , 123 : possible without metre , 1 , 215 : power of arousing transport , 1 , 3 ; II , 379 ...
Contents
Introduction | vii |
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear 1712 | 1 |
To the Spectator on Poetical Justice 1712 | 18 |
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