The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsPhilosophical Library, 1963 - 420 pages |
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... writer and judge of poetical writing is rapt withal when he presumes either to write or censure the height of poesy , and that transports him with humor , vainglory , and pride , most profane and sacrilegious : when divinus furor makes ...
... writer and judge of poetical writing is rapt withal when he presumes either to write or censure the height of poesy , and that transports him with humor , vainglory , and pride , most profane and sacrilegious : when divinus furor makes ...
Page 30
... writing of a tragedy make Caesar speak better than ever his ambition could ; When I write of Pompey I have Pompey's soul within me ; and when I personate a worthy poet I am then truly myself , a poor unpreferred scholar . The idea ...
... writing of a tragedy make Caesar speak better than ever his ambition could ; When I write of Pompey I have Pompey's soul within me ; and when I personate a worthy poet I am then truly myself , a poor unpreferred scholar . The idea ...
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... write only of some particu- lar subject , as the mathematician of mathematics , or philosopher of philosophy ; but in that , the poet must write of every thing , and every one undertakes to judge of it . A dramatic poet is to the stage ...
... write only of some particu- lar subject , as the mathematician of mathematics , or philosopher of philosophy ; but in that , the poet must write of every thing , and every one undertakes to judge of it . A dramatic poet is to the stage ...
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APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
SHAKESPEARE | 243 |
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