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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticismSaintsbury, George

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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticism

Name: A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticism
Author: Saintsbury, George

Saintsbury, George

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

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        Of Addison and others                                  7
        Of La Bruyère and “_Tout est dit_”                     8
        Of Fénelon and Gravina                                 9
        Of Dryden and Fontenelle                               9
        The more excellent way                                10

                              CHAPTER II.

                     THE RALLY OF GERMANY—LESSING.

        Starting-point of this volume                         11

        Neo-Classic complacency and exclusiveness
          illustrated from Callières                          12

        Béat de Muralt                                        13

        His attention to English                              13

        And to French                                         14

        German Criticism proper                               15

        A glance backward                                     15

        Theobald Hoeck                                        16

        Weckherlin and others                                 17

        Weise, Wernicke, Werenfels, &c.                       17

        Some mutineers: Gryphius and Neumeister               18

        Gottsched once more                                   19

        Bodmer and Breitinger                                 20

        The _Diskurse der Maler_                              21

        Gradual divergence from their stand-point; König
          on “Taste”                                          22

        Main works of the Swiss School                        23

        Breitinger’s _Kritische Dichtkunst_, &c.              24

        Bodmer’s _Von dem Wunderbaren_, &c.                   24

        Special criticisms of both                            26

        Bodmer’s verse criticism                              26

        Their later work in mediæval poetry, and their
          general position                                    27

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