Plato to Alexander Pope: Backgrounds of Modern CriticismWalter Sutton, Vivian Sutton Odyssey Press, 1966 - 243 pages |
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... poem . The epic has here an advantage , and one that conduces to grandeur of effect , to diverting the mind of the hearer , and relieving the story with varying episodes . For sameness of incident soon produces satiety and makes ...
... poem . The epic has here an advantage , and one that conduces to grandeur of effect , to diverting the mind of the hearer , and relieving the story with varying episodes . For sameness of incident soon produces satiety and makes ...
Page 70
... poem is con- structed out of several actions , like the Iliad and the Odyssey , which have many such parts , each with a certain magnitude of its own . Yet these poems are as perfect as possible in structure ; each is , in the highest ...
... poem is con- structed out of several actions , like the Iliad and the Odyssey , which have many such parts , each with a certain magnitude of its own . Yet these poems are as perfect as possible in structure ; each is , in the highest ...
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... poem . What mean you by a poem ? A poem is not alone any work or composition of the poet's in many or few verses , but even one alone verse sometimes makes a perfect poem . As when Aeneas hangs up and consecrates the arms of Abas with ...
... poem . What mean you by a poem ? A poem is not alone any work or composition of the poet's in many or few verses , but even one alone verse sometimes makes a perfect poem . As when Aeneas hangs up and consecrates the arms of Abas with ...
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action admiration Aeschylus Ancients Aristotle audience beauty Ben Jonson better blank verse called character comedy Crites critics delight Demosthenes diction divine doth dramatic Dryden English epic poetry Eugenius Euripides excellent expression eyes father fault French genius give Glaucon Greek hath Hesiod Homer honor Horace humor iambic Iliad imagine imitation inspiration John Dryden Jonson judge judgment kind knowledge language laughter learning Lisideius living Longinus matter mean metaphors meter mind modern Muse nature Neander neoclassical never observed Odyssey passions perfect persons philosopher pity Plato Plautus play plot poem poesy poet poet's poetic Polygnotus praise proper prose Quintilian reason rhapsode rhyme rules scene sense Silent Woman Socrates song Sophocles soul sound speak speech stage style sublimity things thought tion tragedy tragic tragicomedies true truth unity virtue whole words writ write Xenophon