The Critical Works of John Dennis, Volume 2Johns Hopkins Press, 1964 - Criticism |
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... author of the Twickenham Hotch - Potch ( 1728 ) spoke of him as " our modern Longinus , " and many other works that appeared in the Dunciad controversy referred to Dennis approvingly and quoted at length from his writings.107 The author ...
... author of the Twickenham Hotch - Potch ( 1728 ) spoke of him as " our modern Longinus , " and many other works that appeared in the Dunciad controversy referred to Dennis approvingly and quoted at length from his writings.107 The author ...
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... Author writes a Tragedy , who knows he has neither Genius nor Judgment , he has Recourse to the making a Party , and endeavours to make up in Industry what is wanting in Talent , and to supply by Poetical Craft the Absence of Poetical ...
... Author writes a Tragedy , who knows he has neither Genius nor Judgment , he has Recourse to the making a Party , and endeavours to make up in Industry what is wanting in Talent , and to supply by Poetical Craft the Absence of Poetical ...
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... Author , which he calls , The Temple of Fame , a Vision , pretending at the same time , that the calling it a Vision , will apologize for every Extravagance with which he is pleas'd to blot his Paper . For Verisimilitude , says he , p ...
... Author , which he calls , The Temple of Fame , a Vision , pretending at the same time , that the calling it a Vision , will apologize for every Extravagance with which he is pleas'd to blot his Paper . For Verisimilitude , says he , p ...
Contents
Introduction | vii |
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear 1712 | 1 |
To the Spectator on Poetical Justice 1712 | 18 |
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