Selected Poems: The Essay on Criticism, the Moral Essays, the DunciadLongmans, Green, 1888 - 251 pages |
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Page vii
... Dennis about the same time , in The Impartial Critic , analysed with considerable skill the grounds of Waller's poetic reputation , and compared the exigencies of the Greek and English theatres . Nor were metrical precedents wanting to ...
... Dennis about the same time , in The Impartial Critic , analysed with considerable skill the grounds of Waller's poetic reputation , and compared the exigencies of the Greek and English theatres . Nor were metrical precedents wanting to ...
Page viii
... Dennis having spoken unfavourably of his Pastorals in clubs and coffee - houses , was some inducement to him to write a poem which should include a severe casti- gation of English critics in general , and John Dennis in particular . Dr ...
... Dennis having spoken unfavourably of his Pastorals in clubs and coffee - houses , was some inducement to him to write a poem which should include a severe casti- gation of English critics in general , and John Dennis in particular . Dr ...
Page xii
... Dennis . These are petty matters ; but it seems desirable to examine Mr. Elwin's charges in detail , in the case of some one poem , after which , we think , the reader will be disposed to distrust in other cases the un- favourable ...
... Dennis . These are petty matters ; but it seems desirable to examine Mr. Elwin's charges in detail , in the case of some one poem , after which , we think , the reader will be disposed to distrust in other cases the un- favourable ...
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... Dennis . John Dennis was a professional critic at the time when Pope's Pastorals were pub- lished , in 1709. He seems to have criticized them unfavourably , probably in conversation . For it must be , as Mr. Elwin rightly gathers , to ...
... Dennis . John Dennis was a professional critic at the time when Pope's Pastorals were pub- lished , in 1709. He seems to have criticized them unfavourably , probably in conversation . For it must be , as Mr. Elwin rightly gathers , to ...
Page xiv
... Dennis in the Essay on Criticism is ex- ceedingly probable ; we are not at all concerned to deny it . Of his thin - skinned sensitiveness we have already spoken . He defended himself from attack with the weapons which nature gave him ...
... Dennis in the Essay on Criticism is ex- ceedingly probable ; we are not at all concerned to deny it . Of his thin - skinned sensitiveness we have already spoken . He defended himself from attack with the weapons which nature gave him ...
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