While many renaissance critics interpreted this affinity as permitting rhetorical elaboration in poetry as well as in prose, Sidney with innate good taste pleaded for more restraint.

But with all the changes which were worked in the literary criticism of the renaissance by the recovery of Aristotle's Poetics, renaissance theories of poetry were nevertheless tinged with rhetoric.

From a renaissance perspective he is still playing the game, albeit a different one.

Thus, as far as he goes, Milton represents the best in English renaissance criticism.

Another influence of the time, more powerful because more permanent, was the renaissance movement, which was at this period working its greatest changes and inspiring the most fervid enthusiasm.

Creizenach remarks that the introduction of a nymph as the beloved of a shepherd is a peculiarity of the renaissance pastoral which manifestly owes its origin to Boccaccio's Ninfale fiesolano (Geschichte des neueren Dramas, ii.

Florence was the intellectual capital of the world in the renaissance period, and the truest representative of its spirit.

Between it and the work of Boccaccio and Sannazzaro there exists no such continuity of tradition as between the bucolics of the classical Mantuan and those of his renaissance follower.

Part First treats of the influence of rhetoric on the general theory of poetry within the period, and Part Second of its influence on the renaissance formulation of the purpose of poetry.

A third phase of the influence of rhetorical terminology I have already touched on in an article on The Requirements of a Poet, where I have shown that historically the renaissance ideal of the nature and education of a poet is in part derived from classical rhetoric.

Again, our renaissance insights and inventions aid us in our quest for a more dimensionalised perspective on our relationship to one another.

Another example is calculus, another key renaissance invention.

The current regime, in the broadest sense, will have ended up being the true and lasting one, if it can get its head and policies around these renaissance modalities of increased dimensionality, emergence, scalability and participation.

The Recovery of Classical Rhetoric A half century before Smith unveiled the mysteries of rhetoric, Bacon had in his Advancement of Learning (1605) pointed out the fallacies of the renaissance obsession with style.

But, more importantly for our renaissance's purposes, the holographic plate itself embodies a new renaissance principle.

He had the renaissance quickness of assuming all parts, its love of wide and pretentious learning, its superficial scholarship, its social and political deftness and flexibility.

They are incompatible with a renaissance sensibility because of the narrative style of their intended unfolding.

To Budé all history was a moral example and Puttenham's inclusion of didactic fiction is in line with much renaissance thought, which regarded the two as almost interchangeable.

The text of "The Stones" is Venice, and the design of the volumes, in the author's words, is to show that the Gothic architecture of Venice "had arisen out of, and indicated, a state of pure domestic faith and national virtue;" while its renaissance architecture "had arisen out of and indicated a state of concealed national infidelity and domestic corruption."

This influence is most readily recognized in the use by English renaissance writers on literary criticism of the terminology of classical rhetoric.

2. The Influence of the Classical Rhetorics A more explicit influence on the renaissance belief that the function of poetry is to improve social morality is readily seen in the definitions of poetry which have already been quoted from Lombardus and Varchi, who formulated their definitions of poetry by combining Aristotle's definition of tragedy with his definition of rhetoric.

The renaissance clerics, the Gallicans, the Jansenists, and the Protestants poured forth volumes of hostile and unmerited criticism on the matter and form of Rome's sacred songs.

Your time is the same as mine," she added, nodding her head toward a French renaissance clock on the black marble mantel.

According to the renaissance developments of this last view, allegory was emphasized less and less as the example was felt to be more appropriate.

What gets reborn The renaissance experience of moving beyond the frame allows everything old to look new again.