Plato to Alexander Pope: Backgrounds of Modern CriticismWalter Sutton, Vivian Sutton Odyssey Press, 1966 - 243 pages |
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... kind is that which comes about by a turn of incident , as in the bath scene in the Odyssey . Next come the recognitions invented at will by the poet , and on that account wanting in art . For example , Orestes in the Iphigenia reveals ...
... kind is that which comes about by a turn of incident , as in the bath scene in the Odyssey . Next come the recognitions invented at will by the poet , and on that account wanting in art . For example , Orestes in the Iphigenia reveals ...
Page 67
... kind of error should , if possible , be avoided . Again , does the error touch the essentials of the poetic art or some accident of it ? For example , not to know that a hind has no horns is a less serious matter than to paint it ...
... kind of error should , if possible , be avoided . Again , does the error touch the essentials of the poetic art or some accident of it ? For example , not to know that a hind has no horns is a less serious matter than to paint it ...
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... kind of necessity , that is , when we either absolutely want a word to express by , and that is necessity , or when we have not so fit a word , and that is commodity . . . . Metaphors farfetched hinder to be understood and , affected ...
... kind of necessity , that is , when we either absolutely want a word to express by , and that is necessity , or when we have not so fit a word , and that is commodity . . . . Metaphors farfetched hinder to be understood and , affected ...
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