Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford

C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1742 - 358 pàgines

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Why more are delighted with Comedy than Tragedy	1

OF THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF POETRY	13

That Fiction is not effential to Poetry	21

Owes its firft Increase and Progrefs to Religion	27

When a Thing is to be strongly expressd and with	28

Explanation of poetical Fables rejected	33

Other Expreffions which tho not entirely poetical	42

To ufe Specials for Generals Page	45

Paftoral lefs fuitable to the preſent Times	186

A Comparison between him and Virgil 3	192

Few Writers in this Way among the Moderns	198

to the Georgics 194 5 6 7	201

The Peculiar Nature of them ibid	204

Of the Mufic of the Antients	210

of Hannes	216

Difference between the Satyric Poetry of the Greeks	219

That figurative Expreffions are more fuitable to poetic	51

Repetition of the fame Words to be avoided as much	60

Of the Verfes in the Æneid that break off fhort	67

The Gradus ad Parnaffum and other Books of that	73

All Adjectives and Participles not Epithets	81

Of the Florid Style	92

And to thofe in the French ibid	100

that under each Head of Poetry I have either	102

The Difference between true and falfe Vit	106

That fome Thoughts are true tho Poetical Fiction	109

Beauty of Thought divided into two Kinds the Ele	115

Death and Love the chief Subjects of Elegy 165	125

Of Images 125129	126

of Tranſitions 132135	132

of Delicate Thoughts 140	141

Examples of Sublimity exciting Terror and Pity ibid	151

Of Sublimity	157

The Opinion of the famous Boileau and a Paffage	160

OF ELEGY	163

A Miftake of thoſe who think that Sublimity is more	165

Many Epiftles are Elegies	166

LECTURE XIV	172

They contain an elegant fort of Simplicity	178

More of the Nature and Turn of this fort of Poem	179

it	225

Horaces rightly entitled Difcourfes rather than	232

The Difference between an Epic and Dramatic	238

The Apparatus of the ancient Drama passd by	244

The Manners different Natures Characters Paffi	248

of Place	254

The Reafon ought to appear why each Perfon comes	261

Voffius gives to these an improper Divifion in	266

The last Claufe of the Definition confiderd contain	272

A Definition of Comedy fuch as it ought to be	279

Upon thefe Heads Scaliger and Voffius inconfiftent with themfelves ibid	282

in Comedy 284 That not only Joy but all the Paffions are concerned	288

of the Diction of Comedy	294

of modern Pindarics 216 217	298

The Etymology of the Word	301

The part of Tragedy to teach Virtue even the most	308

Thofe whofe Cataſtrophe is unfortunate the more	314

How Tragedy purges the Paffions and even by put	319

of Dramatic Juſtice ibid	321

A Comparison between the Ancients and Moderns	326

What the Action of the Poem in the ſtricteſt or moſt	333

Of the Marvelous	338

Epic more fuited to the Manners and Habits than	346

of Spencer ibid	352

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Informació bibliogràfica

Títol	Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford
Autor	Joseph Trapp
Editor	William Bowyer
Traducció de	William Clarke, William Bowyer
Editor	C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1742
Original de	Universitat d’Oxford
Digitalitzat el	31 Jul. 2006
Nre. de pàgines	358 pàgines

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