A History of Elizabethan LiteratureCosimo, Inc., 1 дек. 2005 г. - Всего страниц: 488 As Shakespere is by far the greatest of all writers, ancient or modern, so he has been the subject of commentorial folly to an extent, which dwarfs the expense of that folly on any other single subject... [T]here is always the danger either that some mischievous notions may be left undisturbed by the neglect to notice them, or that the critic himself may be presumed to be ignorant of the foolishness of his predecessors. These inconveniences, however, must here be risked, and it may perhaps be thought that the necessity of risking them is a salutary one.-from "The Second Dramatic Period-Shakespere"George Saintsbury, one of the finest Victorian thinkers on literature, called the output of British writers in the years between 1560 and 1660 "the greatest period of the greatest literature of the world," and his insight and enthusiasm fills this sweeping survey of that era. The words of the Elizabethan writers alone-Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, Raleigh, Milton-would be a grand enough evocation of their brilliance, but Saintsbury's singing of their praises, for all its erudition and knowledge, is a glorious tribute to their genius. Poets, playwrights, and pamphleteers, all get their just due here, in a book that will thrill lovers of magnificent literature.British journalist and critic GEORGE EDWARD BATEMAN SAINTSBURY (1845-1933) was a regular contributor to the Saturday Review. His books include A Primer of French Literature (1880), the two-volume Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 (1890-1895), and the three-volume A History of Criticism (1900-1904). |
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... Gorboduc - The Senecan Drama --- Other early plays - The " university wits " Their lives and char- acters - Lyly ( dramas ) -The Marlowe group - Peele - Greene - Kyd-- Marlowe The actor playwrights 50-81 CHAPTER IV << THE FAËRIE QUEENE ...
... Gorboduc - The Senecan Drama --- Other early plays - The " university wits " Their lives and char- acters - Lyly ( dramas ) -The Marlowe group - Peele - Greene - Kyd-- Marlowe The actor playwrights 50-81 CHAPTER IV << THE FAËRIE QUEENE ...
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... Gorboduc ( see Chapter III . ) adds but little to its interest . His contributions to The Mirror for Magistrates contain the best poetry written in the English language between Chaucer and Spenser , and are most certainly the originals ...
... Gorboduc ( see Chapter III . ) adds but little to its interest . His contributions to The Mirror for Magistrates contain the best poetry written in the English language between Chaucer and Spenser , and are most certainly the originals ...
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... Gorboduc hereafter : the two contribu- tions to The Mirror for Magistrates concern us here . And I have little hesitation in saying that no more astonishing contribution to English poetry , when the due reservations of that historical ...
... Gorboduc hereafter : the two contribu- tions to The Mirror for Magistrates concern us here . And I have little hesitation in saying that no more astonishing contribution to English poetry , when the due reservations of that historical ...
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... Gorboduc and Cornelia , with Cleopatra and Philotas , at the very best with Sejanus and The Silent Woman . Again Sidney commits himself in this same piece to the pestilent heresy of prose - poetry , saying that verse is " only an ...
... Gorboduc and Cornelia , with Cleopatra and Philotas , at the very best with Sejanus and The Silent Woman . Again Sidney commits himself in this same piece to the pestilent heresy of prose - poetry , saying that verse is " only an ...
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... Gorboduc , otherwise Ferrex and Porrex . Ralph Roister Doister was licensed and is thought to have been printed in 1566 , but there is a reference to it full fifteen years before , and the whole cast of the metre language and scenario ...
... Gorboduc , otherwise Ferrex and Porrex . Ralph Roister Doister was licensed and is thought to have been printed in 1566 , but there is a reference to it full fifteen years before , and the whole cast of the metre language and scenario ...
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SpenserHis life and the order of his worksThe Shepherds CalendarThe | 156 |
CHAPTER VI | 207 |
THE THIRD DRAMATIC PERIOD | 253 |
CHAPTER VIII | 289 |
CHAPTER IX | 315 |
CHAPTER X | 354 |
CHAPTER XI | 394 |
CHAPTER XII | 428 |
CONCLUSION | 445 |
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Стр. 116 - Since there's no help. come let us kiss and part: Nay. I have done: you get no more of me. And I am glad. yea. glad with all my heart. That thus so cleanly I myself can free: Shake hands for ever. cancel all our vows. And when we meet at any time again. Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
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