English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 - 460 pages |
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... Poetry 104 BEN JONSON , 1573 ? -1637 Extracts from Timber 110 To the Memory of William Shakespeare 116 JOHN MILTON , 1608-74 Preface to Samson Agonistes 119 JOHN DRYDEN , 1631-1700 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Preface to the Fables 122 ...
... Poetry 104 BEN JONSON , 1573 ? -1637 Extracts from Timber 110 To the Memory of William Shakespeare 116 JOHN MILTON , 1608-74 Preface to Samson Agonistes 119 JOHN DRYDEN , 1631-1700 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Preface to the Fables 122 ...
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... Poetry , which from almost the highest estimation of learning is fallen to be the laughing - stock of children , so have I need to bring some more available proofs , since the former is by no man barred of his deserved credit , the ...
... Poetry , which from almost the highest estimation of learning is fallen to be the laughing - stock of children , so have I need to bring some more available proofs , since the former is by no man barred of his deserved credit , the ...
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... Poetry 1 THOMAS CAMPION , 1567-1620 From Observations in the Art of English Poesy 65 SAMUEL DANIEL , 1562-1619 A Defence of Rhyme 72 FRANCIS BACON , 1561-1626 The Nature of Poetry 104 BEN JONSON , 1573 ? -1637 Extracts from Timber 110 ...
... Poetry 1 THOMAS CAMPION , 1567-1620 From Observations in the Art of English Poesy 65 SAMUEL DANIEL , 1562-1619 A Defence of Rhyme 72 FRANCIS BACON , 1561-1626 The Nature of Poetry 104 BEN JONSON , 1573 ? -1637 Extracts from Timber 110 ...
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... Poet • • 365 370 373 381 436 Gray Preface to Milton's Minor Poems 451 THOMAS WARTON , 1728-90 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AN APOLOGY FOR POETRY [ 1595 ] viii CONTENTS.
... Poet • • 365 370 373 381 436 Gray Preface to Milton's Minor Poems 451 THOMAS WARTON , 1728-90 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AN APOLOGY FOR POETRY [ 1595 ] viii CONTENTS.
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Edmund David Jones. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AN APOLOGY FOR POETRY [ 1595 ] WHEN the right virtuous Edward Wotton and I were at the Emperor's Court together , we gave ourselves to learn horsemanship of John Pietro Pugliano , one that with ...
Edmund David Jones. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AN APOLOGY FOR POETRY [ 1595 ] WHEN the right virtuous Edward Wotton and I were at the Emperor's Court together , we gave ourselves to learn horsemanship of John Pietro Pugliano , one that with ...
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action admiration Aeneas Aeneid ancients Anne Brontë Aristotle beauties Ben Jonson better blank verse character Charlotte Brontë Chaucer comedy commendation composition conceit Crites critics delight discourse divine doth Dryden E. V. LUCAS English epic Eugenius excellent fable Faerie Queene fame fancy father fault French genius give glory Gothic Greek hath heroic Homer honour Horace humour Iliad imagination imitation Intro invention Jonson judge judgement kind labour language Latin learning Lisideius manner Milton mind modern Muse nature never noble numbers observed Ovid Paradise Lost passion perfection perhaps persons philosopher play plot poem Poesy poet poetical poetry praise prose reader reason rhyme Roman rules scene sense sentiments Shakespeare Silent Woman sometimes speak spirit stage stanza syllables THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON things thought tion tragedy translated Trochee truth Virgil virtue words write written
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Page 96 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 103 - For though the Poet's matter Nature be His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 240 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 92 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Page 432 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Page 241 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Page 96 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this 'side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent fantasy, braye notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Page 40 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place: then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave: while in the mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 235 - Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach.