Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... poets more infelicitously than he who wrote Of Poets . " Scaliger means the Italian critic Giraldi ( 1479-1552 ) . That only the poet may properly judge the poet appears in the Rhetorica ad Herrenium iv.2 , a work the Renaissance at ...
... poets more infelicitously than he who wrote Of Poets . " Scaliger means the Italian critic Giraldi ( 1479-1552 ) . That only the poet may properly judge the poet appears in the Rhetorica ad Herrenium iv.2 , a work the Renaissance at ...
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... Poets ( according to the usuall negligence of our Nation in examining , and their diligence to censure ) seems ... Poets some upbraid the want of extempo- rary fury , or rather Inspiration ; a dangerous word , which many have of late ...
... Poets ( according to the usuall negligence of our Nation in examining , and their diligence to censure ) seems ... Poets some upbraid the want of extempo- rary fury , or rather Inspiration ; a dangerous word , which many have of late ...
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... poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew ...
... poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew ...
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