The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... kind of writing which was already well known ; that is to say he found to be included in the epic besides the heroic , which is a war poem of a kind already familiar , this other which is a poem of peace not previously known , the less ...
... kind of writing which was already well known ; that is to say he found to be included in the epic besides the heroic , which is a war poem of a kind already familiar , this other which is a poem of peace not previously known , the less ...
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... kind , and moreover would have added to that disloca- tion a difference in kind , which is no small difference . As for unimportant actions , they are to be found in the poem as are those of the same kind , as many , indeed , as the ...
... kind , and moreover would have added to that disloca- tion a difference in kind , which is no small difference . As for unimportant actions , they are to be found in the poem as are those of the same kind , as many , indeed , as the ...
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... kind of pleasure in reading , and here poetry is found in its absolute purity free from anything foreign to it except such as may serve as a foil . The last kind raises poetry above itself and causes it to be embodied , without in any ...
... kind of pleasure in reading , and here poetry is found in its absolute purity free from anything foreign to it except such as may serve as a foil . The last kind raises poetry above itself and causes it to be embodied , without in any ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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