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What distinguishes an Epic from a Dramatic Poem is , its being a Narration that comes immediately from the Poet , and is not represented , as in Tragedy , by persons introduced for that purpose . The chief things to be considered in an ...
What distinguishes an Epic from a Dramatic Poem is , its being a Narration that comes immediately from the Poet , and is not represented , as in Tragedy , by persons introduced for that purpose . The chief things to be considered in an ...
Page 280
The sentiments of this poem are , as the Epic requires , often sublime and noble ; but there is not the same Arain of sublimity , which we find in the Iliad , tho ' perhaps there is more propriety . Virgil advances with an uniform ...
The sentiments of this poem are , as the Epic requires , often sublime and noble ; but there is not the same Arain of sublimity , which we find in the Iliad , tho ' perhaps there is more propriety . Virgil advances with an uniform ...
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... however excellent in themselves , as members of an Epic poem they are intolerable ; for tho ' the Epic deals in the wonderful , yec every thing is to be probable , and therefore the imposable must be excluded , unless it be founded ...
... however excellent in themselves , as members of an Epic poem they are intolerable ; for tho ' the Epic deals in the wonderful , yec every thing is to be probable , and therefore the imposable must be excluded , unless it be founded ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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