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

Absalom and Achitophel action Addison admiration Aeneas Aeneid ancients Aristotle beauties Ben Jonson better blank verse character Chaucer comedy commendation composition conceit criticism delight divine doth drama Dryden elegant English English poetry epic epic poetry excellent fable Faerie Queene fame fancy father faults French genius Georgic give glory Gothic Greek hath heroic Homer honour Horace Iliad images imagination imitation immortal invention Jonson judge judgement kind labour language Latin learning lines manner Milton mind modern moral Muse nature never noble numbers observed opinion original Ovid Paradise Lost passion perfect perhaps persons philosopher Pindar play poem Poesy poet poetical poetry Pope praise Prince prose reader reason rhyme rules satire scenes sense sentiments Shakespeare sometimes speak spirit stanza syllables things thought tion tragedy translation truth unity verse Virgil virtue words write written