A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy
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This is the true reverence: the rest is but “leather and prunella.”
the book—which I have read—is hardly, in my sense, critical at all.
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- PREFACE.Sample
- ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA TO VOLUME II.
- Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY—ERASMUS
- Chapter II. EARLY ITALIAN CRITICS
- Chapter III. SCALIGER, CASTELVETRO, AND THE LATER ITALIAN CRITICS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- Chapter IV. THE CRITICISM OF THE PLÉIADE
- Chapter V. ELIZABETHAN CRITICISM
- Chapter IV.
- Book V. THE CRYSTALLISING OF THE NEO-CLASSIC CREED
- Chapter I. FROM MALHERBE TO BOILEAU
- Chapter II. THE ITALIAN DECADENCE AND THE SPANIARDS
- Chapter III. GERMAN AND DUTCH CRITICISM
- Chapter IV. DRYDEN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
- Chapter V.
- Chapter I. FROM ADDISON TO JOHNSON
- Chapter II. THE CONTEMPORARIES OF VOLTAIRE
- Chapter III. CLASSICISM IN THE OTHER NATIONS
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- II.
- INDEX.