A. W. Schlegel's Lectures on German Literature from Gottsched to Goethe: Given at the University of Bonn and Taken Down by George Toynbee in 1833, Together with Toynbee's 'Continuation to Heine,' with Introduction, Notes and a Portrait |
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... epic in blank verse , in order to silence the one - sided criticism of Gottsched , who would acknowledge no poetry unless it were clothed in rhyme . The idea of an epic , in those days , implied supernatural agency , as well as human ...
... epic in blank verse , in order to silence the one - sided criticism of Gottsched , who would acknowledge no poetry unless it were clothed in rhyme . The idea of an epic , in those days , implied supernatural agency , as well as human ...
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... epic . The grand and indispensable duty of the epic poet was held to be the imitation of the ancients - especially of Homer . But in order to imitate , one 28.
... epic . The grand and indispensable duty of the epic poet was held to be the imitation of the ancients - especially of Homer . But in order to imitate , one 28.
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... epics is the genuine core of Greek tradition , gradually formed and gradually perfected . No epic poet can be inspired without an enthusiastic belief in the truth of that which he sings , and this was a requisite which modern critics ...
... epics is the genuine core of Greek tradition , gradually formed and gradually perfected . No epic poet can be inspired without an enthusiastic belief in the truth of that which he sings , and this was a requisite which modern critics ...
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