Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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... Homer , and he is interested only in Homer . He drops off into a doze when somebody talks about any other poet . Enough comes out to make it appear that anything Ion has to say about Homer is scarcely said with the help of what Socrates ...
... Homer , and he is interested only in Homer . He drops off into a doze when somebody talks about any other poet . Enough comes out to make it appear that anything Ion has to say about Homer is scarcely said with the help of what Socrates ...
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... Homer . Homer . . . first laid down the main lines of Comedy , by dram- atizing the ludicrous instead of writing personal satire . His Mar- gites bears the same relation to Comedy that the Iliad and Odyssey do to Tragedy ...
... Homer . Homer . . . first laid down the main lines of Comedy , by dram- atizing the ludicrous instead of writing personal satire . His Mar- gites bears the same relation to Comedy that the Iliad and Odyssey do to Tragedy ...
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... Homer for the whole invention of the structure of an epick poem , and for many of his beauties . ' 5 Dryden , in his ... Homer's poems , on Edward Young's view , be subject to the same discount in value as the first steamboat or the ...
... Homer for the whole invention of the structure of an epick poem , and for many of his beauties . ' 5 Dryden , in his ... Homer's poems , on Edward Young's view , be subject to the same discount in value as the first steamboat or the ...
Contents
Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
Copyright | |
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