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Page 145
Allegory , notwithstanding , unexpectedly rekindled some faint sparks of its native
splendour in the Purple Tiland of Phineas Fletcher , with .whom it almost as soon
disappeared : when a poetry succeeded , in which imagination gave way to ...
Allegory , notwithstanding , unexpectedly rekindled some faint sparks of its native
splendour in the Purple Tiland of Phineas Fletcher , with .whom it almost as soon
disappeared : when a poetry succeeded , in which imagination gave way to ...
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Beside a poet is a maker ; nor does he compose a poem for the sake of any one
hero , but rather he makes a hero for the sake of his poem : and if he follews fame
, whether from the more authentic relation of * old chronicles , or from the ...
Beside a poet is a maker ; nor does he compose a poem for the sake of any one
hero , but rather he makes a hero for the sake of his poem : and if he follews fame
, whether from the more authentic relation of * old chronicles , or from the ...
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Here we have the poet delivering his own method , and the reason of it . It arose
out of the order of his subject . And would we desire a better reason for his choice
? Yes ; it will be said ; a poet's method is not that of his subject . I grant it , as to ...
Here we have the poet delivering his own method , and the reason of it . It arose
out of the order of his subject . And would we desire a better reason for his choice
? Yes ; it will be said ; a poet's method is not that of his subject . I grant it , as to ...
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All this the poet knew very well , but his purpose was not to write a classick poem
. He chose to adorn , a Gothick story ; and , to be consistent throughout , he chose
that the form of his work should be of a piece with his subject . Did the poet do ...
All this the poet knew very well , but his purpose was not to write a classick poem
. He chose to adorn , a Gothick story ; and , to be consistent throughout , he chose
that the form of his work should be of a piece with his subject . Did the poet do ...
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The effect was , as I said , that the Italian poetry was rejected in the gross , by
virtue of this censure ; though the authors of it bad said no more than this , • That
their best poet had some false thoughts , and deali , as they sup• posed , too
much ...
The effect was , as I said , that the Italian poetry was rejected in the gross , by
virtue of this censure ; though the authors of it bad said no more than this , • That
their best poet had some false thoughts , and deali , as they sup• posed , too
much ...
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| Title | The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author and the Critical Remarks of Hughes, Spence, Warton, Upton, and Hurd, 9. köide The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author and the Critical Remarks of Hughes, Spence, Warton, Upton, and Hurd, Edmund Spenser 15–23. köide of The Poets of Great Britain |
| Author | Edmund Spenser |
| Publisher | Cadell and Davies ... and Samuel Bagster, 1807 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 mai 2007 |
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