The Poetics of Reason: English Neoclassical Criticism

Addison admired Aeneid aesthetic ancient artistic attitude Augustan beauty blank verse Boileau's called character classical comedy conception Cowley creative critical theory Dennis Discourse doctrine dramatic unities Dryden eighteenth century epic Essay on Criticism example expressed fact Faerie Queene fancy French genius genre Gothic Greek heroic Homer Horace's Hurd idea imagination imitation John John Dennis Johnson's critical Joseph Warton judgment kind language later less literary criticism literature Milton mimesis mind modern moral nature neoclassical neoclassical criticism neoclassicism Northrop Frye numbers observed original play pleasure poem Poesy poet's poetic justice poetry Pope Pope's praise Preface principle prose Rambler readers reason René rhyme Richard Richard Hurd romantic rules Rymer Samuel Johnson satire seems sense Shakespeare Spectator stage sublime T. S. Eliot taste Thomas Thomas Rymer Thomas Warton thought tion tragedy tragic translation truth Virgil words writing wrote