A Critical History of English Literature, Volume 2Secker & Warburg, 1960 From Anglo-Saxon times to the present, the poetry, prose, and dramatic achievements of each period in English literature. |
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Page 344
... heroic play of the Restoration . French romances - those of d'Urfé and Mademoiselle de Scudéry - also played their part here . The modulation of the heroic world of Sir Philip Sidney into the world of Caroline gallantry shows a moral ...
... heroic play of the Restoration . French romances - those of d'Urfé and Mademoiselle de Scudéry - also played their part here . The modulation of the heroic world of Sir Philip Sidney into the world of Caroline gallantry shows a moral ...
Page 437
... heroic verse without rime " ( as he calls it in his preliminary note on the " measure , " in which he somewhat unnecessarily attacks rhyme and sees himself as recovering ancient liberty to English heroic poetry ) can be seen at once if ...
... heroic verse without rime " ( as he calls it in his preliminary note on the " measure , " in which he somewhat unnecessarily attacks rhyme and sees himself as recovering ancient liberty to English heroic poetry ) can be seen at once if ...
Page 457
... heroic and fitting : Come , come , no time for lamentation now , Nor much more cause : Samson hath quit himself Like Samson , and heroicly hath finish'd A life heroic , Nothing is here for tears , nothing to wail Or knock the breast ...
... heroic and fitting : Come , come , no time for lamentation now , Nor much more cause : Samson hath quit himself Like Samson , and heroicly hath finish'd A life heroic , Nothing is here for tears , nothing to wail Or knock the breast ...
Contents
DRAMA FROM JONSON TO THE CLOSING OF THE THEATERS | 309 |
THE JONSONIAN AND the Meta | 346 |
MILTON | 390 |
Copyright | |
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