English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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... true which is false ; so as the 1080 other artists , and especially the historian , affirming many things , can , in the cloudy knowledge of mankind , hardly escape from many lies . But the poet , as I said before , never affirmeth ...
... true which is false ; so as the 1080 other artists , and especially the historian , affirming many things , can , in the cloudy knowledge of mankind , hardly escape from many lies . But the poet , as I said before , never affirmeth ...
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... true , that the language of the earliest Poets was felt to differ materially from ordinary language , because it 920 was the language of extraordinary occasions ; but it was really spoken by men , language which the Poet himself had ...
... true , that the language of the earliest Poets was felt to differ materially from ordinary language , because it 920 was the language of extraordinary occasions ; but it was really spoken by men , language which the Poet himself had ...
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... true and 60 untrue or only half - true . It is charlatanism , conscious or un- conscious , whenever we confuse or obliterate these . And in poetry , more than anywhere else , it is unpermissible to confuse or obliterate them . For in ...
... true and 60 untrue or only half - true . It is charlatanism , conscious or un- conscious , whenever we confuse or obliterate these . And in poetry , more than anywhere else , it is unpermissible to confuse or obliterate them . For in ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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