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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxySaintsbury, George

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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy

Name: A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy
Author: Saintsbury, George

Saintsbury, George

Criticism -- History; Literature -- History and criticism; Literature, Medieval

Heinsius: the _De Tragœdiæ Constitutione_                           356
 Voss                                                                357
 His _Rhetoric_                                                      358
 His _Poetics_                                                       359
 Opitz                                                               360
 The _Buch der Deutschen Poeterei_                                   361

                              CHAPTER IV.

                     DRYDEN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

 Dead water in English Criticism                                     365
 Milton                                                              365
 Cowley                                                              366
 The Prefatory matter of _Gondibert_                                 367
 The “Heroic Poem”                                                   368
 Davenant’s _Examen_                                                 369
 Hobbes’s Answer                                                     370
 Dryden                                                              371
 His advantages                                                      372
 The early Prefaces                                                  373
 The _Essay of Dramatic Poesy_                                       376
 Its setting and overture                                            376
 Crites for the Ancients                                             377
 Eugenius for the “last age”                                         378
 Lisideius for the French                                            378
 Dryden for England and Liberty                                      379
 _Coda_ on rhymed plays, and conclusion                              380
 Conspicuous merits of the piece                                     381
 The Middle Prefaces                                                 382

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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy

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