The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 46
... epigram , a recognized classical verse genre , was popular during the century , enjoying the attention of the very best poets . It was a short poem building to a surprising turn of thought or sententious statement . The epigram varied ...
... epigram , a recognized classical verse genre , was popular during the century , enjoying the attention of the very best poets . It was a short poem building to a surprising turn of thought or sententious statement . The epigram varied ...
Stran 47
... epigram was written solely for the elementary play upon words in the closing couplet , certainly a threadbare pun at best . In the following adaptation of a Latin epigram , both words and thought combine in a complexity clearly superior ...
... epigram was written solely for the elementary play upon words in the closing couplet , certainly a threadbare pun at best . In the following adaptation of a Latin epigram , both words and thought combine in a complexity clearly superior ...
Stran 58
... epigram relied too often on a play on words , and the age agreed generally with Edward Phillips , a hack writer of the Restoration , who called the epigram " the fag end of Poetry . ” 42 As will be seen , faulty epigrams were regularly ...
... epigram relied too often on a play on words , and the age agreed generally with Edward Phillips , a hack writer of the Restoration , who called the epigram " the fag end of Poetry . ” 42 As will be seen , faulty epigrams were regularly ...
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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