Sir Philip Sidney as a Literary CraftsmanHarvard University Press, 1935 - 322 pages |
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Page 114
... verse ; and they have an elaborate machinery of supernatural characters.3 Sidney has no invocation in the ordinary sense ; he writes not in heroic numbers , but in prose , interspersed with songs and eclogues in verse ; and above all he ...
... verse ; and they have an elaborate machinery of supernatural characters.3 Sidney has no invocation in the ordinary sense ; he writes not in heroic numbers , but in prose , interspersed with songs and eclogues in verse ; and above all he ...
Page 118
... verse with respect . " The Senate of Poets , " he admits , " hath chosen verse as their fittest raiment : meaning as in matter , they passed all in all , so in maner , to go be- yond them . " " But yet presuppose it were inseperable ...
... verse with respect . " The Senate of Poets , " he admits , " hath chosen verse as their fittest raiment : meaning as in matter , they passed all in all , so in maner , to go be- yond them . " " But yet presuppose it were inseperable ...
Page 183
... verse and prose are not the essential difference between poetry and history , nevertheless verse accompanies and adorns poetry , and prose history , as their appropriate raiment and habits . History should not or cannot put on verse ...
... verse and prose are not the essential difference between poetry and history , nevertheless verse accompanies and adorns poetry , and prose history , as their appropriate raiment and habits . History should not or cannot put on verse ...
Contents
HUMANIST COURTIER AND POET | 3 |
THE DEFENCE OF POESIE AS A CLASSICAL ORATION | 46 |
SIDNEYS CLASSICAL BACKGROUND | 84 |
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