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

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mere Abfurdity and Concifenefs is generally	1

OF THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF POETRY	13

That Poetry took its Rife from Love 21	21

T The Difference between Poefy Poetry and a Poem ibid	23

Owes its first Increase and Progress to Religion	27

Explanation of poetical Fables rejected	33

Other Expreffions which tho not entirely poetical	42

To ufe Specials for Generals Page	45

Few Writers in this Way among the Moderns	198

Of the Various Methods of fetching in Ornaments	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

Provd against Monf Dacier that the Difference	225

Horaces rightly entitled Difcourfes rather than	232

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

A Miftake of those on the other Hand who think	78

Of the Florid Style	92

And to thofe in the French ibid	100

of the Learned However in one or two of	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

Of Images 125129	126

Of Tranfitions 132135	132

That pretty Thoughts ill agree with the Paffions	139

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

LECTURE XIV	172

They contain an elegant fort of Simplicity	178

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

Paftoral lefs fuitable to the prefent Times	186

A Comparison between him and Virgil	192

OF THE DRAMA IN GENERAL	237

A Short Hiftory of the ancient Drama taken from	243

The Manners different Natures Characters Paffi	248

of Place	254

The Reafon ought to appear why each Perfon comes	261

Voffius gives to thefe an improper Divifion in	266

The laft Claufe of the Definition confiderd contain	272

A Definition of Comedy fuch as it ought to be	279

Upon thefe Heads Scaliger and Voffius inconfiften	282

But in a quite different Manner from what they	289

A Comparison between the Ancients and the	296

of modern Pindarics 216 217	298

Why more are delighted with Comedy than Tragedy	300

The part of Tragedy to teach Virtue even the most	308

Thofe whofe Cataftrophe 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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الصفحة 119 - I see the right, and I approve it too ; Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.‏

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العنوان	Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford
المؤلف	Joseph Trapp
المُحرر	William Bowyer
ترجمة	William Clarke, William Bowyer
الناشر	C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1742
أصلي من	جامعة أوكسفورد
الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي	31 تموز (يوليو) 2006
عدد الصفحات	358 من الصفحات

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