Sir Philip Sidney as a Literary CraftsmanHarvard University Press, 1935 - 322 pages |
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Page 142
... reader's attention from the main action . Not only unity , but continuity , is wanting , for the account is broken into five parts . To any modern reader or to a true classicist the episodes are a glaring defect in the artistic ...
... reader's attention from the main action . Not only unity , but continuity , is wanting , for the account is broken into five parts . To any modern reader or to a true classicist the episodes are a glaring defect in the artistic ...
Page 187
... reader constantly moving forward in the com- pany of some one of the dramatis persona , so here also he has him assume the point of view of the men moving rapidly toward the scene . The images are of the things they saw . The ...
... reader constantly moving forward in the com- pany of some one of the dramatis persona , so here also he has him assume the point of view of the men moving rapidly toward the scene . The images are of the things they saw . The ...
Page 271
... reader in varied aspects , and to lend them the persuasive power of his literary art . There is no evidence , however , for the view that he looked upon the Arcadia as a political treatise . The instruction , though part of the ...
... reader in varied aspects , and to lend them the persuasive power of his literary art . There is no evidence , however , for the view that he looked upon the Arcadia as a political treatise . The instruction , though part of the ...
Contents
HUMANIST COURTIER AND POET | 3 |
THE DEFENCE OF POESIE AS A CLASSICAL ORATION | 46 |
SIDNEYS CLASSICAL BACKGROUND | 84 |
Copyright | |
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