The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 49
... developed by the metaphysical poet , the mean- ings became quite complex through “ paradoxical inquiry , im- aginative and intellectual . " This inquiry exhausted , by " its use of antithesis and contradiction and unusual imagery , all ...
... developed by the metaphysical poet , the mean- ings became quite complex through “ paradoxical inquiry , im- aginative and intellectual . " This inquiry exhausted , by " its use of antithesis and contradiction and unusual imagery , all ...
Stran 228
... developed amid conflicting viewpoints in a skeptical and contentious age . Further , the elaborate rhetorical texture of Augustan poetry required an urbane tradition . Most of all , wit itself depended upon a facile mind , learned and ...
... developed amid conflicting viewpoints in a skeptical and contentious age . Further , the elaborate rhetorical texture of Augustan poetry required an urbane tradition . Most of all , wit itself depended upon a facile mind , learned and ...
Stran 254
... developed . Knowledge of the social context for false wit is essential to passing critical judgment upon opinions of the men of wit them- selves . Without it one may quote their own statements against them or interpret such statements ...
... developed . Knowledge of the social context for false wit is essential to passing critical judgment upon opinions of the men of wit them- selves . Without it one may quote their own statements against them or interpret such statements ...
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PREFACE | 11 |
THE ENIGMA OF WIT | 17 |
THE RHETORIC OF WIT | 36 |
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Abraham Cowley Addison Age of Wit Alexander Pope ancients Augustan Reprint Society Beauty Bishop Sprat Blackmore called chap comedy concept context conversation Country Wife Cowley decorum Dennis Discourse Dryden dull Dunciad Earl English epigram Essay on Criticism expression extravagant faculty faculty psychology false wit fancy figures Flecknoe fool genius Gulliver Hobbes HORNER Houyhnhnms humor imagination intellectual irreligion John John Dryden Jonathan Swift kind of wit LADY FIDGET laugh Learning letter literary little wits London Longinus manner meaning ment metaphor metaphysical metaphysical poets mind moral nature neoclassical ornamentation play poem poet poetic Poetry Pope popular Preface to Valentinian pretenders propriety psychology raillery reason Republic of Wit rhetorical ridicule rules satire secret grace sect sense seventeenth century Shadwell Shaftesbury Spectator Spingarn spirit style sublime Swift Tatler things Thomas Hobbes thought tion true wit truth turn vice wit's witty Wolseley words writing wrote