The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 121
... DECORUM Decorum , the observance of neoclassical proprieties , required the use of reason . As wit became the most desirable attribute in written and spoken English , its psychological affinity elevated it to the status of a faculty of ...
... DECORUM Decorum , the observance of neoclassical proprieties , required the use of reason . As wit became the most desirable attribute in written and spoken English , its psychological affinity elevated it to the status of a faculty of ...
Stran 124
... decorum . WIT AS DECORUM IN STYLE Wit , the facility of expressing ideas deftly and effectively , be- came a valuable asset in what has been called the Augustan cult of " correctness , " 12 which promoted the search for le mot juste ...
... decorum . WIT AS DECORUM IN STYLE Wit , the facility of expressing ideas deftly and effectively , be- came a valuable asset in what has been called the Augustan cult of " correctness , " 12 which promoted the search for le mot juste ...
Stran 128
... Decorum of Ornamentation While excessive ornamentation was condemned , decorum in the use of ornamentation was accepted as evidence of true wit . Hobbes's Preface to his translation of Homer's Odysses ( 1675 ) expressed respect for ...
... Decorum of Ornamentation While excessive ornamentation was condemned , decorum in the use of ornamentation was accepted as evidence of true wit . Hobbes's Preface to his translation of Homer's Odysses ( 1675 ) expressed respect for ...
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Abraham Cowley Addison Age of Wit Alexander Pope 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 and Humour wit's witty Wolseley words writing wrote