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... Unities in France ; Mairet . - Aristotle on Tragedy .-- Corneille on the Unities ; Voltaire ; Lessing . - Fall of the Unities . - Addison's " Cato . " 182 CHAPTER VI . I. Definition of Poetry . - Prosperous Condition of Men of Letters ...
... Unities in France ; Mairet . - Aristotle on Tragedy .-- Corneille on the Unities ; Voltaire ; Lessing . - Fall of the Unities . - Addison's " Cato . " 182 CHAPTER VI . I. Definition of Poetry . - Prosperous Condition of Men of Letters ...
Page 89
... unities , Milton had , one may almost say , written a Greek play , the " Samson Agonistes " ( 1671 ) , * which his contem- * It is curious to notice that Milton published his " Comus " in 1634 , just after Prynne's " Histrio - Mastix ...
... unities , Milton had , one may almost say , written a Greek play , the " Samson Agonistes " ( 1671 ) , * which his contem- * It is curious to notice that Milton published his " Comus " in 1634 , just after Prynne's " Histrio - Mastix ...
Page 127
... unities ; but his gen- eral point is clear beneath even his accumulation of foreign testimony . Naturally , the book excited great wrath . Almost all of those attacked directly , or by implication , made retort , but Congreve , who was ...
... unities ; but his gen- eral point is clear beneath even his accumulation of foreign testimony . Naturally , the book excited great wrath . Almost all of those attacked directly , or by implication , made retort , but Congreve , who was ...
Page 186
... unities , as they were afterwards called , were the unity of action - which different writers took to mean a number of different things , as we shall presently see - unity of time , which demanded that the action should take place ...
... unities , as they were afterwards called , were the unity of action - which different writers took to mean a number of different things , as we shall presently see - unity of time , which demanded that the action should take place ...
Page 187
... unities is full of interest , as illustrative of the general course of pseudo - classicism in literature . Their value was one of the most important of the tenets of this school , and it was , in France at least , one of the longest ...
... unities is full of interest , as illustrative of the general course of pseudo - classicism in literature . Their value was one of the most important of the tenets of this school , and it was , in France at least , one of the longest ...
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