...One can understand his sympathy with the serious Tasso who preached and practised in Milton's words, "What the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a...what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe." But the wayward Boiardo is much more like that " despicable creature," a "...

...One can understand his sympathy with the serious Tasso who preached and practised in Milton's words, "What the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a...what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe." But the wayward Boiardo is much more like that " despicable creature," a "...

...tradition. Of this study, which we shall call Poetics, Milton says, " that sublime Art which . . . teaches what the Laws are of a true Epic Poem, what of a Dramatic,...what of a Lyric, what Decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe. This would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common Rimers...

...which in Aristotle's poetics as in Horace and others teaches what the laws of a true epic poem are, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe." Milton translated one ode of Horace, but there are innumerable passages throughout...

...poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro, Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true Epic poem, what of a Dramatic,...what of a Lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand master peece to observe." 64 His rhetoric, also, he knew at first hand from the best classical sources....

...and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro, Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what are the laws of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric; what decorum is; which is the grand masterpiece to observe. So he wrote and so he has been judged, fairly and sympathetically. No, the...

...Poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro, Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem; what of a dramatic;...what of a lyric; what decorum is (which is the grand master-piece to observe).'1 We shall try to follow him in his selection, assimilation, and recombination...

...poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro, Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true Epic poem, what of a Dramatic, what of a Lyric,what decorum is. This wotdd shew . . . what Religious, what glorious and magnificent use might...

...Poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro, Tasso, Massoiu. and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a a Lawgivers respectively to Sparta, Athens, the Locrians in southern Italy, and certain cities in Sicily...

...Castelvetro, Tasso, Mazzoni, and others," and the "commentators along with Aristotle and Horace* teach "what the laws are of a true Epic Poem, what of a Dramatic, what of a Lyric, what Decorum is . . ." (Educ 4 : 286). The sources overlap and interrelate, with the tragedians' works providing the...