Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 87
Page 17
... Nature , Reason , and Art that could only , when pushed to their logical conclusion , produce something rather like the Rules . The logical extension , overtly the work of the French but latent among the English , developed mainly ...
... Nature , Reason , and Art that could only , when pushed to their logical conclusion , produce something rather like the Rules . The logical extension , overtly the work of the French but latent among the English , developed mainly ...
Page 18
... Nature and Reason . Even Dryden , who managed to avoid the pessimistic view , as- sumes , in the Parallel of Poetry and Painting and elsewhere , that the " way to please ” is to “ imitate nature . . . For nature is still the same in all ...
... Nature and Reason . Even Dryden , who managed to avoid the pessimistic view , as- sumes , in the Parallel of Poetry and Painting and elsewhere , that the " way to please ” is to “ imitate nature . . . For nature is still the same in all ...
Page 20
... Nature as natura naturans , as the cosmic power that testifies to God's sus- taining grace and that somehow embodies the antithetical quali- ties of Plato's " god " : insatiable variety and inexhaustible plenti- tude paradoxically ...
... Nature as natura naturans , as the cosmic power that testifies to God's sus- taining grace and that somehow embodies the antithetical quali- ties of Plato's " god " : insatiable variety and inexhaustible plenti- tude paradoxically ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admirable Aeneid alwayes ancient Apollo Aristotle Author Beauty better body Book call'd Cicero conceit Cowley criticism delight discourse divine Donne doth Dryden English Euripides excellent expression Fable Fame Fancy farre fitnesse Francis Bacon generall Gods Gondibert grace Greek hath heaven Hesiod Homer honour Horace imitation invention Jonson Joshua Sylvester judgement kind knowledge labour language Latin learned lesse lines literary manner matter meane meere metaphysical poets mind Muse naturall Nature neoclassicism never noble Orpheus Ovid perfect Petrarch Philosophers Plato Plautus Poem Poesie poetic Poetry Poets praise prose Quintilian Reader reason Renaissance Rime Ryme Samuel Daniel sayes selfe sense severall shew Sophocles Soul speake spirit stile thee thereof things thou thought tion tongue Tragedy translation true Truth verse vertue Virgil vulgar wayes wherein wisdome wise words writ write Zoroaster