And he must be excused for his sudden night into the regions of classicism.

Rhetorical Elements in Later English Classicism Part Second: The Purpose of Poetry I. The Classical Conception of the Purpose of Poetry 1.

The passage is short, but contains two very important points in the creed of classicism.

The important thing is that Sidney instituted a tendency toward classicism which during the next fifty years established itself in criticism.

That this classicism tended in some cases toward over-emphasis does not alter the fact that English criticism profited greatly by the return to classical poetical theory.

5. Rhetorical Elements in Later English Classicism From Puttenham to Bacon no serious contributions were made to the general theory of poetry.

As Spingarn points out, Ben Jonson was first led to classicism in poetical theory by the example of Sidney.

With the English literary criticism in the second half of the Seventeenth Century, when the influence of French classicism was in the ascendant, this study is not concerned.

1798) INTRODUCTION I. ORTHODOXY AND CLASSICISM QUIESCENT (1700-1725)

This is the characteristic defect of classicism.

The Conflict between Romanticism and Classicism.

Johnson was a powerful adherent of classicism, and he did much to defer the coming of romanticism.

Men rebelled against the aristocracy, the narrow conventions of society, the authority of the church and of the government, against the supremacy of cold classicism in literature, against confining intellectual activity to tangible commonplace things, and against the repression of imagination and of the soul's aspirations.

Elegance N. elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness &c adj.; concinnity^, euphony, numerosity^; Atticism^, classicalism^, classicism.

For it is a grave mistake to assume, as has been assumed only too often, that, after the great epoch of Classicism and Romanticism in the early decades of the nineteenth century, Germany produced but little of universal significance, or that, after Goethe and Heine, there were but

This mediaeval theory of life was subjected, as is well known, to many compromises in the West, and was materially modified by Teutonic influence and the revival of classicism.

Classicism sacrifices character to breadth.

Reason, rule and revolt in English classicism.

The Freedom of French classicism.

Reason, rule and revolt in English classicism.

ROMANTICISM, the name of the reactionary movement in literature and art at the close of last century and at the beginning of this against the cold and spiritless formalism and pseudo-classicism that then prevailed, and was more regardful of correctness of expression than truth of feeling and the claims of the emotional nature; has been defined as the "reproduction in modern art and literature of the life and thought of the Middle Ages.

He fixed the whole of his attention upon the spiritual crisis; to him that alone was of importance; and the conventional classicism so disheartening to the English readerthe 'unities,' the harangues, the confidences, the absence of local colour, and the concealment of the actionwas no more than the machinery for enhancing the effect of the inner tragedy, and for doing away with every side issue and every chance of distraction.

It is remarkable that Mr. Bailey, while seeming to approve of the classicism of Racine's dramatic form, nevertheless finds fault with him for his lack of a quality with which, by its very nature, the classical form is incompatible.

"' Attacks of this kindattacks upon the elaboration and classicism of Browne's styleare difficult to reply to, because they must seem, to anyone who holds a contrary opinion, to betray such a total lack of sympathy with the subject as to make argument all but impossible.

With all his Classicism he detested Racine; with all his love of music he could see nothing in Beethoven; he adored Italy, and, so soon as he was given his Italian consulate, he was usually to be found in Paris.