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Page x
Critics have pointed out again and again that it is out of scale with the rest, giving
far too much importance to a minor ... This is the sort of error that a certain kind of
criticism is eager to fall upon ; but, after all, a footnote will set it right at once.
Critics have pointed out again and again that it is out of scale with the rest, giving
far too much importance to a minor ... This is the sort of error that a certain kind of
criticism is eager to fall upon ; but, after all, a footnote will set it right at once.
Page xiii
Poetry and criticism, to begin with, were to 'tend to the promotion of piety' : here,
as so often elsewhere, we have the old conflict between art and morals
unflinchingly faced, and art handed over, scrip and scrippage, into the service of
morality.
Poetry and criticism, to begin with, were to 'tend to the promotion of piety' : here,
as so often elsewhere, we have the old conflict between art and morals
unflinchingly faced, and art handed over, scrip and scrippage, into the service of
morality.
Page 447
Dryden had, not many years before, scattered criticism over his Prefaces with
very little parsimony; but, though he sometimes condescended to be somewhat
familiar, his manner was in general too scholastick for those who had yet their ...
Dryden had, not many years before, scattered criticism over his Prefaces with
very little parsimony; but, though he sometimes condescended to be somewhat
familiar, his manner was in general too scholastick for those who had yet their ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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