History of Criticism And Literary Taste in Europe: From the Earliest Texts ...

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History of Criticism And Literary Taste in Europe: From the Earliest Texts ...
Saintsbury George
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We had, as they had in France, to fashion a new poetic diction ; but it cannot be said that the critics did much for this : Spenser, as much as Coriolanus, might have said, " Alone I did it." They did more in re metrica, and it so happened that they had, quite in their own sphere, to fight an all - important battle, the battle of the classical metres, which was of nothing like the same importance in French or in Italian. In dealing with these and other matters they fall into certain generations... or successive groups.
In Ascham and his contemporaries the critical attitude was induced, but not altogether favourably conditioned, by certain forces, partly common to them with their Continental contem- ^ Some exception ought, perhape, to be made for Paequier : but not much.
Digiti ized by Google BENAISSAKOE CBITIOISM. 225 poraries, partly not They all felt, in a degree most creditable to themselves (and contrasting most favourably with the rather opposite feeling of men so much greater and so much later as Bacon and Hobbes), that they must adorn their Sparta, that it was their business to get the vernacular into as good working order, both for prose and verse, as they possibly could And what is more, they had some shrewd notions about the best way of doing this.


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