Dante in English Literature From Chaucer to Cary C 1380 1844 volume 2
Dante in English Literature From Chaucer to Cary C 1380 1844 volume 2
Paget Jackson Toynbee
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In one of these are interesting quotations from Dante's Latin works in illustration of his views on tragedy and comedy. In 1830 Price issued a new edition of Blackstone's Commentaries. He died in 1833. ] 1824. THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY. BY THOMAS WARTON. NEW EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED [bY RICHARD PRICe]. [Dante's definition of tragedy and comedy] IN the dedication of his Paradise to Can della Scala, Dante thus explains his own views of Tragedy and Comedy : ' Est comoedia genus quoddam poeti...cae narrationis ab omnibus aliis difFerens. Differt ergo in materia a tragoedia per hoc, quod tragoedia in principio est admirabilis et quieta, in fine sive exitu, foetida et horribilis. . . . Comoedia vero inchoat asperitatem alicujus rei, sed ejus materiam-^ prospere terminatur. — Similiter diffeixmt in modo loquendi. ' ^ He has also expatiated upon the distinctive styles peculiar to such compositions, in his treatise ' De Vulgari Eloquentia ' ; though his precepts when opposed to his practice have proved a sad stumbling-block to the critics : ' Per Tragoediam superiorem stylum induimus, per Comoediam inferiorem.
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