English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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Page 87
... English one , like those of Fletcher , or of Shakespeare ? ' If they content themselves , as Corneille did , with some flat design , which , like an ill riddle , is found out ere it be half proposed , such plots we can make every way ...
... English one , like those of Fletcher , or of Shakespeare ? ' If they content themselves , as Corneille did , with some flat design , which , like an ill riddle , is found out ere it be half proposed , such plots we can make every way ...
Page 149
... English prose , which the critics have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they ...
... English prose , which the critics have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they ...
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... English Criticism ( a revision of the English chapters of the above ) , George Saintsbury ( Edinburgh , 1911 ) Literary Criticism : A Short History , W. K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks ( New York , 1957 ) The Poet's Defence , J. Bronowski ...
... English Criticism ( a revision of the English chapters of the above ) , George Saintsbury ( Edinburgh , 1911 ) Literary Criticism : A Short History , W. K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks ( New York , 1957 ) The Poet's Defence , J. Bronowski ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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