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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 — John Shaqi

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

Close connection of French seventeenth and eighteenth               501
   century Criticism: Fontenelle
 Exceptional character of his criticism                              502
 His attitude to the “Ancient and Modern” Quarrel                    503
 The _Dialogues des Morts_                                           503
 Other critical work                                                 504
 La Motte                                                            507
 His “Unity of Interest”                                             508
 Rollin                                                              509
 Brumoy                                                              509
 Rémond de Saint-Mard                                                510
 L. Racine                                                           511
 Du Bos                                                              511
 Stimulating but desultory character of his _Réflexions_             512
 Montesquieu                                                         514
 Voltaire: disappointment of his criticism                           515

 Examples of it                                                      515
 Causes of his failure                                               518
 Others: Buffon                                                      519
 “Style and the man”                                                 520
 Vauvenargues                                                        521
 Batteux                                                             522
 His adjustment of Rules and Taste                                   523
 His incompleteness                                                  524
 Marmontel                                                           525
 Oddities and qualities of his criticism                             526
 Others                                                              529
 Thomas, Suard, &c.                                                  529
 La Harpe                                                            530
 His _Cours de Littérature_                                          530
 His critical position as _ultimus suorum_                           531
 The Academic Essay                                                  533
 Rivarol                                                             534

                              CHAPTER III.

                    CLASSICISM IN THE OTHER NATIONS.

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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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