Sir Philip Sidney as a Literary CraftsmanHarvard University Press, 1935 - 322 pages |
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Page 52
... rhetoric , which is the fact of prime importance . From the ancient Greek and Roman orators down to the writers and diplomats of the sixteenth century , from the Sophists down through Aris- totle , Cicero , Quintilian , and the rest ...
... rhetoric , which is the fact of prime importance . From the ancient Greek and Roman orators down to the writers and diplomats of the sixteenth century , from the Sophists down through Aris- totle , Cicero , Quintilian , and the rest ...
Page 195
... rhetoric as applied to poetry by the critics of the Italian renaissance . According to Sidney , the purpose of poetry is to win men to virtue by pleasant instruction ; it accom- plishes this end primarily by examples . " 2 Thus from the ...
... rhetoric as applied to poetry by the critics of the Italian renaissance . According to Sidney , the purpose of poetry is to win men to virtue by pleasant instruction ; it accom- plishes this end primarily by examples . " 2 Thus from the ...
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... rhetoric ; they guide him at every moment , but they do not fetter him . He is controlled only by his central purpose . Now in the Ar- cadia we should expect his central purpose would be to move men to take ... goodness in hand . " In ...
... rhetoric ; they guide him at every moment , but they do not fetter him . He is controlled only by his central purpose . Now in the Ar- cadia we should expect his central purpose would be to move men to take ... goodness in hand . " In ...
Contents
HUMANIST COURTIER AND POET | 3 |
THE DEFENCE OF POESIE AS A CLASSICAL ORATION | 46 |
SIDNEYS CLASSICAL BACKGROUND | 84 |
Copyright | |
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