English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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Page 177
... metre ; for , as it may be 575 proper to remind the Reader , the distinction of metre is regular and uniform , and not , like that which is produced by what is usually called POETIC DICTION , arbitrary , and subject to infinite caprices ...
... metre ; for , as it may be 575 proper to remind the Reader , the distinction of metre is regular and uniform , and not , like that which is produced by what is usually called POETIC DICTION , arbitrary , and subject to infinite caprices ...
Page 219
... Metre in itself is simply a stimulant of the attention , and therefore excites the question : Why is the attention to be thus stimulated ? Now the question cannot be answered by the plea- sure of the metre itself : for this we have ...
... Metre in itself is simply a stimulant of the attention , and therefore excites the question : Why is the attention to be thus stimulated ? Now the question cannot be answered by the plea- sure of the metre itself : for this we have ...
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... metre the proper form of poetry , and poetry imperfect and defective without metre . Metre therefore having been connected with poetry most often and by a peculiar 1080 fitness , whatever else is combined with metre must , though it be ...
... metre the proper form of poetry , and poetry imperfect and defective without metre . Metre therefore having been connected with poetry most often and by a peculiar 1080 fitness , whatever else is combined with metre must , though it be ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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