Eighteenth-century English Literature: Modern Essays in CriticismOxford University Press, 1959 - 351 Seiten |
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... genius , and the highest gift of the critic as true taste , proceeds to the principle that the best critics are those who excel as authors ( lines 15-16 ) .2 True taste , therefore , is best revealed in the operations of genius . That ...
... genius , and the highest gift of the critic as true taste , proceeds to the principle that the best critics are those who excel as authors ( lines 15-16 ) .2 True taste , therefore , is best revealed in the operations of genius . That ...
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... genius as the quality necessary in the poet , and taste in the critic , but notes that the two functions ideally should coincide . Genius is a synonym for wit , and after the first sixteen lines the former word is discarded in favor of ...
... genius as the quality necessary in the poet , and taste in the critic , but notes that the two functions ideally should coincide . Genius is a synonym for wit , and after the first sixteen lines the former word is discarded in favor of ...
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... genius is ' broken ' by the rules and in becoming learned ' falls unavoidably into imitation . ' This pessimistic view of culture as something naturally opposed to genius received , no doubt , its extreme expression in Macaulay's essay ...
... genius is ' broken ' by the rules and in becoming learned ' falls unavoidably into imitation . ' This pessimistic view of culture as something naturally opposed to genius received , no doubt , its extreme expression in Macaulay's essay ...
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THE GLOOM OF THE TORY SATIRISTS | 3 |
THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
Urheberrecht | |
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