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Page lvi
... public , and the general taste was not prepared for the later pieces in un - Miltonic blank verse . Yet the poems were approved by a small group of estimable gentlemen , whose opinions in some measure justified the author's confidence ...
... public , and the general taste was not prepared for the later pieces in un - Miltonic blank verse . Yet the poems were approved by a small group of estimable gentlemen , whose opinions in some measure justified the author's confidence ...
Page cviii
... public taste is best , a critic should watch over public taste , to correct it when it is bad and to expose the causes of its corruption . Sometimes it is corrupted by false standards embodied in specific works of art , and then it is ...
... public taste is best , a critic should watch over public taste , to correct it when it is bad and to expose the causes of its corruption . Sometimes it is corrupted by false standards embodied in specific works of art , and then it is ...
Page cix
... public support from poetry to a much less worthy object but also because it tended to undermine public spirit and , consequently , the state . 202 A good critic is a patriot as well as a man of learning and virtue . To fulfill so ...
... public support from poetry to a much less worthy object but also because it tended to undermine public spirit and , consequently , the state . 202 A good critic is a patriot as well as a man of learning and virtue . To fulfill so ...
Contents
Introduction | vii |
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear 1712 | 1 |
To the Spectator on Poetical Justice 1712 | 18 |
Copyright | |
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