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Page lxxxii
... rules rigorously , 39 and he himself set the pattern of a critic who based hist observations upon taste and sense rather than the standard of the rules . Ac- cordingly his criticism commended itself to Henry Felton , who found the ...
... rules rigorously , 39 and he himself set the pattern of a critic who based hist observations upon taste and sense rather than the standard of the rules . Ac- cordingly his criticism commended itself to Henry Felton , who found the ...
Page lxxxiii
... rules Dennis firmly took his stand . He was convinced that the rules were fundamentally sound and that they were necessary if poetry was to be an art rather than an expression of purposeless and undigested observation . The antagonism ...
... rules Dennis firmly took his stand . He was convinced that the rules were fundamentally sound and that they were necessary if poetry was to be an art rather than an expression of purposeless and undigested observation . The antagonism ...
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... rules of tragedy , the epic , and comedy , it be- comes difficult to think of him as a mechanical critic . The indispensable rules , as he conceived them , were few in number and , except for the doctrine of the distinction of genres ...
... rules of tragedy , the epic , and comedy , it be- comes difficult to think of him as a mechanical critic . The indispensable rules , as he conceived them , were few in number and , except for the doctrine of the distinction of genres ...
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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