The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsGreenwood Press, 1968 - 420 pages Examines Elizabethan dramatists’ reflected and criticized their own art. |
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... poets , indeed , are mad for the most part . Drayton . Elegies of Poets and Poesy ( 1627 ) : Next Marlowe , bathed in the Thespian springs , Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air ...
... poets , indeed , are mad for the most part . Drayton . Elegies of Poets and Poesy ( 1627 ) : Next Marlowe , bathed in the Thespian springs , Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air ...
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... poets , and you shall see that when the matter is most heavenly their style is most lofty , a strange token of the ... poem is this : to ground it upon some fine invention . For it is not enough to roll in pleasant words , nor yet to ...
... poets , and you shall see that when the matter is most heavenly their style is most lofty , a strange token of the ... poem is this : to ground it upon some fine invention . For it is not enough to roll in pleasant words , nor yet to ...
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... poets and playwrights have themselves been remiss in the face of the onslaught on poetry and the theater : And , amongst our modern poets who have been industrious in many an elaborate and ingenious poem , even they whose pens have had ...
... poets and playwrights have themselves been remiss in the face of the onslaught on poetry and the theater : And , amongst our modern poets who have been industrious in many an elaborate and ingenious poem , even they whose pens have had ...
Contents
APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
SHAKESPEARE | 243 |
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