The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsPhilosophical Library, 1963 - 420 pages |
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... Jonson's Timber is a commonplace book , considerable por- tions of which are devoted to literary theory . More significant , undoubtedly , than any of the expositions mentioned must have been Jonson's commentary on Horace's Ars Poetica ...
... Jonson's Timber is a commonplace book , considerable por- tions of which are devoted to literary theory . More significant , undoubtedly , than any of the expositions mentioned must have been Jonson's commentary on Horace's Ars Poetica ...
Page 307
... Jonson " hath commented and trans- lated Horace's Art of Poesy : it is in dialogue ways . " The transla- tion has ... Jonson's own meager description in his Execration upon Vulcan : But , in my desk , what was there to accite So ravenous ...
... Jonson " hath commented and trans- lated Horace's Art of Poesy : it is in dialogue ways . " The transla- tion has ... Jonson's own meager description in his Execration upon Vulcan : But , in my desk , what was there to accite So ravenous ...
Page 369
... Jonson's construction , then , is in reality a three act construc- tion . Acts I and II are structurally the first act , Acts III and IV the second . Thus simply has Jonson resolved the difficulty of appor- tioning three logical parts ...
... Jonson's construction , then , is in reality a three act construc- tion . Acts I and II are structurally the first act , Acts III and IV the second . Thus simply has Jonson resolved the difficulty of appor- tioning three logical parts ...
Contents
APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
SHAKESPEARE | 243 |
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