The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... epic poem , as we shall show later , poetry and the epic are presupposed before it . If it has novelty , then , it must be of the second kind , that is to say , of the praise- worthy sort , and that is what I maintain ; here are my ...
... epic poem , as we shall show later , poetry and the epic are presupposed before it . If it has novelty , then , it must be of the second kind , that is to say , of the praise- worthy sort , and that is what I maintain ; here are my ...
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... epic poem . In the former , terror and pity have the chief place ; the passion that seems most peculiar to epic poetry is admiration . Besides this admiration , which in general distinguishes the epic poem from the dramatic , each epic ...
... epic poem . In the former , terror and pity have the chief place ; the passion that seems most peculiar to epic poetry is admiration . Besides this admiration , which in general distinguishes the epic poem from the dramatic , each epic ...
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... Epic Poetry , that " to be- lieve Homer and Virgil submitted beforehand to the rules laid down by Le Bossu , who bids an epic poet invent and dispose the constitution of his fable before he thinks of the name of his heroes , is indeed ...
... Epic Poetry , that " to be- lieve Homer and Virgil submitted beforehand to the rules laid down by Le Bossu , who bids an epic poet invent and dispose the constitution of his fable before he thinks of the name of his heroes , is indeed ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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