The Proper Wit of PoetryUniversity of Chicago Press, 1961 - 136 sidor Author examines poetic wit from the death of Donne until the Augustans. |
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... writes for those who have known adversity : ' For my own part , I found my creep- ing Genius more fixed upon the Images of Life , than the Images of Wit , and therefore chose not to write to them on whose foot the black Oxe had not ...
... writes for those who have known adversity : ' For my own part , I found my creep- ing Genius more fixed upon the Images of Life , than the Images of Wit , and therefore chose not to write to them on whose foot the black Oxe had not ...
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... writer ' . But the epic poet , who speaks mostly in his own person , is able to express his thoughts with all the graces of elocution , to write more figuratively , and to confess as well the labour as the force of his imagination ...
... writer ' . But the epic poet , who speaks mostly in his own person , is able to express his thoughts with all the graces of elocution , to write more figuratively , and to confess as well the labour as the force of his imagination ...
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... write , Yet from the stain of ink , preserve it white : Whose travel o'er that silver field does show , Like tracks ... writes it in the French heroic verse , and calls it an heroic poem ; his subject is trivial , but his verse is noble ...
... write , Yet from the stain of ink , preserve it white : Whose travel o'er that silver field does show , Like tracks ... writes it in the French heroic verse , and calls it an heroic poem ; his subject is trivial , but his verse is noble ...
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THE POETS FEIGNING WIT page | 11 |
JACOBEAN WIT | 22 |
CAROLINE WIT | 43 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration ambiguity Anagram antithesis Bacon beauty Ben Jonson Butler Caelica Carew catachresis Cleveland conceit contradiction contraries couplet Cowley Cowley's Coy Mistress Davenant death defined definition of wit Donne Donne's doth Drummond Dryden effect elegy English epigram epitaphs Essay example expression fancy feeling figures form of wit Fulke Greville gives Gondibert Greville hath hence Hobbes Hoskins ideas images imagination imitation ingenuity invention Jasper Mayne Jonson judgment kind of wit levity Love's lovers Lucan Mac Flecknoe Marvell Marvell's meta metaphor Metaphysical mind Mistress mixt Wit mock-heroic mode of wit Muse numbers opposites Ovid paradox Passion philosophy Pindaric poem Poesy poetic wit praise Preface proper wit propriety Puttenham quibbling resemblance rhetoric rhyme Samuel Butler satire says sense serious Sidney Similitudes small poet soul Sprat stanza style surprise thee thou thought tion turn Valediction verse Virgil Waller witty words write