English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)

action admiration Aeneas Aeneid ancients Aristotle audience beauties Ben Jonson better betwixt blank verse character Chaucer comedy commendation composition conceit Crites critics delight discourse divine doth Dryden English epic epic poetry Eugenius Euripides excellent fable Faerie Queene fame father fault French genius give Gothic Greek hath heroic Homer honour Horace humour Iliad imagination imitation invention Jonson judge judgement kind labour language Latin learning lines Lisideius manner Milton mind modern Muse nature never noble numbers observed Ovid Paradise Lost passion perfection perhaps persons philosopher Pindar Plato Plautus play plot Plutarch poem Poesy poet poetical poetry praise prose reader reason rhyme Roman rules scene sense sentiments Shakespeare Silent Woman sometimes speak spirit stage stanza syllables things thought tion tragedy translated trochee true truth Virgil virtue words write written