English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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... common sense and common observation tell us that we are all human , that we have much in common in the shape of our mental and spiritual limbs as in that of our physical members . This being so , the critic has two functions . Firstly ...
... common sense and common observation tell us that we are all human , that we have much in common in the shape of our mental and spiritual limbs as in that of our physical members . This being so , the critic has two functions . Firstly ...
Page 92
... common to more , and the more common the more natural . To prove this , they instance 1625 in the best of comical characters , Falstaff . There are many men resembling him ; old , fat , merry , cowardly , drunken , amorous , vain , and ...
... common to more , and the more common the more natural . To prove this , they instance 1625 in the best of comical characters , Falstaff . There are many men resembling him ; old , fat , merry , cowardly , drunken , amorous , vain , and ...
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... common properties 640 of the class to which he belongs ; and thirdly , words and phrases of universal use . The language of Hooker , Bacon , Bishop Taylor , and Burke differs from the common language of the learned class only by the ...
... common properties 640 of the class to which he belongs ; and thirdly , words and phrases of universal use . The language of Hooker , Bacon , Bishop Taylor , and Burke differs from the common language of the learned class only by the ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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action admiration Aeneid alive ancient Aristotle beauty Ben Jonson better blank verse character Chaucer Cicero classics comedy composition Crites criticism D. H. LAWRENCE delight diction divine doth drama Dryden effect emotion English Euripides excellent express F. R. LEAVIS faults feelings French genius give Greek hath Homer honour Horace human humour imagination imitation Johnson judgement Keats Keats's kind knowledge language learning Lisideius living manner Metaphysical Poets metre metrical mind modern moral nature never object observed passions perfection perhaps persons philosopher Plato Plautus play pleasure plot Plutarch poem poesy poet poet's poetic poetry praise produced prose reader reason rhyme rules scenes sense Shakespeare Silent Woman soul speak spirit stage stanza style T. S. ELIOT things thought tion tragedy true truth unity Velleius Paterculus Virgil virtue words Wordsworth write