English Literary Criticism: The Renascence

16th Century adds allegorical ancient antiquity appreciation Aristotle Aristotle's artistic Ascham attempts authority Ben Jonson Cicero Ciceronian claims classical classical antiquity comedy conception concerning connexion contemporary defence delight described diction doctrine dramatic dramatists earlier effects Elizabethan eloquence English criticism epic epigrams Erasmus Euripides explains expression fashion Gabriel Harvey Greek Harington hexameter Homer Humanists ibid ideas imitation influence inspiration instance interest Italian Jonson judgment kind later Latin literary literature matters medieval ment methods mind moral Moreover nature notes orator Petrarch philosophers Plato Plautus plays Plutarch poems poetic art poetry poets praise principles prose Puttenham Quintilian readers recalls remarks Renascence rhetoric rhyme satire Scaliger scholars Seneca sense Shakespeare Sidney Sidney's significance Smith sonnet Spingarn style suggests supra teaching themes theory things thought tion tradition tragedy translation treated treatise treatment true truth vernacular verse Virgil Vives words writing