The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... poem is of the second class of novelties , the poet having discovered by means of it something new in a 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 is of the second class of novelties , the poet having discovered by means of it something new in a 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 ...
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... poem from being a poem , that is to say good in its poetic genre , have been sufficiently clarified and it has been sufficiently shown that they do not de- prive this work of the nature of a poem . There remain now to be con- sidered ...
... poem from being a poem , that is to say good in its poetic genre , have been sufficiently clarified and it has been sufficiently shown that they do not de- prive this work of the nature of a poem . There remain now to be con- sidered ...
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... poets are found only some imperfect essays of narrations . He among the moderns who has the best genius to sustain all the nobleness of a narration in heroic verse is Hierom Vida , Bishop of Alba , in his poem on the death of Jesus ...
... poets are found only some imperfect essays of narrations . He among the moderns who has the best genius to sustain all the nobleness of a narration in heroic verse is Hierom Vida , Bishop of Alba , in his poem on the death of Jesus ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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