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... moral or ( as we should say ) psychological . Poetry had for centuries been regarded as a kind of rhetoric , belonging , that is , to the art of persuasion . Poetry in dis- covering the true , the real , should display virtues in their ...
... moral or ( as we should say ) psychological . Poetry had for centuries been regarded as a kind of rhetoric , belonging , that is , to the art of persuasion . Poetry in dis- covering the true , the real , should display virtues in their ...
Page 91
... moral wisenesse , his dewe observing of Decorum everyewhere , in personages , in seasons , in matter , in speach , and generally in al seemely simplicitie of handeling his matter and framing his words . As to ' framing his words ' we ...
... moral wisenesse , his dewe observing of Decorum everyewhere , in personages , in seasons , in matter , in speach , and generally in al seemely simplicitie of handeling his matter and framing his words . As to ' framing his words ' we ...
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... moral values . In English Malory's Morte Arthur was the culmination . ( The pearl of medieval romances in English , Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight was lying unknown , though there are hints that Spenser knew something of it . ) By the ...
... moral values . In English Malory's Morte Arthur was the culmination . ( The pearl of medieval romances in English , Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight was lying unknown , though there are hints that Spenser knew something of it . ) By the ...
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