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Page 172
... classic tragedy is based upon an elaborate code of rules deduced by commentators from Aristotle's Poetics . Many of these rules are not true to Aristotle's meaning but they were nevertheless maintained as valid . Neo- classic tragedy ...
... classic tragedy is based upon an elaborate code of rules deduced by commentators from Aristotle's Poetics . Many of these rules are not true to Aristotle's meaning but they were nevertheless maintained as valid . Neo- classic tragedy ...
Page 174
... classic legends , but they had to be refined and modern- ized to reflect the ideas of fashionable society . Neo - classic tragedy moved , therefore , in a highly restricted area . In general it concerned itself with a romantic situation ...
... classic legends , but they had to be refined and modern- ized to reflect the ideas of fashionable society . Neo - classic tragedy moved , therefore , in a highly restricted area . In general it concerned itself with a romantic situation ...
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... classic criticism in England in Spingarn , J. E. Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century . 3 vols . Oxford . The greatest single English neo - classic critic is Dryden . Full discussion in Ker , W. P. Essays of John Dryden . 2 vols ...
... classic criticism in England in Spingarn , J. E. Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century . 3 vols . Oxford . The greatest single English neo - classic critic is Dryden . Full discussion in Ker , W. P. Essays of John Dryden . 2 vols ...
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |