English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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Page 174
... Poet principally directs his attention . He considers man and nature as essentially adapted to each other , and the mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fairest and most interesting pro- perties of nature . And thus the Poet ...
... Poet principally directs his attention . He considers man and nature as essentially adapted to each other , and the mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fairest and most interesting pro- perties of nature . And thus the Poet ...
Page 176
... Poet's own , either peculiar to him as an individual Poet or belonging simply to Poets in general ; to a body of men who , from the circumstance of their compositions being in metre , it 535 is expected will employ a particular language ...
... Poet's own , either peculiar to him as an individual Poet or belonging simply to Poets in general ; to a body of men who , from the circumstance of their compositions being in metre , it 535 is expected will employ a particular language ...
Page 253
... poet . That he is the wisest , the happiest , and the best , inasmuch as he is a poet , is equally incontrovertible : the 1095 greatest poets have been men of the most spotless virtue , of the most consummate prudence , and , if we ...
... poet . That he is the wisest , the happiest , and the best , inasmuch as he is a poet , is equally incontrovertible : the 1095 greatest poets have been men of the most spotless virtue , of the most consummate prudence , and , if we ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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