Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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Page 186
... humour and passions . " Dryden has some fun here with the French unity of place ( where the characters stand still and " the street , the window , the house , and the closet , are made to walk about " " ) , and with the French ...
... humour and passions . " Dryden has some fun here with the French unity of place ( where the characters stand still and " the street , the window , the house , and the closet , are made to walk about " " ) , and with the French ...
Page 201
... humour . An insistence that wit could not , as might be sometimes thought , transcend the principle of propriety inherent in the humour - that is , that various kinds of witty characters must be fitted with variously appropriate kinds ...
... humour . An insistence that wit could not , as might be sometimes thought , transcend the principle of propriety inherent in the humour - that is , that various kinds of witty characters must be fitted with variously appropriate kinds ...
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... humour , " a kind of bumptiousness which was never com- pletely sophisticated even in the smartest Restoration comedies . Toward the end of the century this very indigenous form of the laughable settled into a national institution , a ...
... humour , " a kind of bumptiousness which was never com- pletely sophisticated even in the smartest Restoration comedies . Toward the end of the century this very indigenous form of the laughable settled into a national institution , a ...
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Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
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