Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance / A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism
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Chapters (58)
- Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance
- A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism
- Donald Lemen Clark, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English in Columbia University
- Preface
- Part One The General Theory of Rhetoric and of Poetry
- Chapter I Introductory
- 1. The Distinction between Rhetoric and Poetic
- Chapter II Classical Poetic
- 1. Aristotle
- 2. "Longinus"
- 3. Plutarch
- 4. Horace
- Chapter III Classical Rhetoric
- 1. Definitions
- 2. Subject Matter
- 3. Content of Classical Rhetoric
- 4. Rhetoric as Part of Poetic
- 5. Poetic as Part of Rhetoric
- Chapter IV Classical Blending of Rhetoric and Poetic
- 1. The Contact of Rhetoric and Poetic in Style
- 2. The Florid Style in Rhetoric and in Poetic
- 3. The False Rhetoric of the Declamation School
- 4. The Contamination of Poetic by False Rhetoric
- Chapter V The Middle Ages
- 1. The Decay of Classical Rhetorical Tradition
- 2. Rhetoric as Aureate Language
- Chapter VI Logic and Rhetoric in the English Renaissance
- 1. The Content of Classical Rhetoric Carried Over into Logic
- 2. The Persistence of the Mediaeval Tradition of Rhetoric
- 3. The Recovery of Classical Rhetoric
- 4. Channels of Classical Theory
- Chapter VII Renaissance Poetic
- 1. The Reestablishment of the Classical Tradition
- 2. Rhetorical Elements
- Chapter VIII Theories of Poetry in the English Renaissance
- 1. The Rhetorical Period of English Criticism
- 2. The Influence of Horace
- 3. The Influence of Aristotle
- 4. Manuals for Poets
- 5. Rhetorical Elements in Later English Classicism
- Part Two The Purpose of Poetry
- Chapter I The Classical Conception of the Purpose of Poetry
- 1. General
- 2. Moral Improvement through Precept and Example
- 3. Moral Improvement through Allegory
- 4. The Influence of Rhetoric
- Chapter II Mediaeval Ideas of the Purpose of Poetry
- 1. Allegorical Interpretations in the Middle Ages
- 2. Allegory in Mediaeval England
- Chapter III Rhetorical Elements in Italian Renaissance Conceptions of the Purpose of Poetry
- 1. The Scholastic Grouping of Poetic, Rhetoric and Logic
- 2. The Influence of the Classical Rhetorics
- Chapter IV English Renaissance Ideas of the Purpose of Poetry
- 1. Allegory and Example in Rhetoric
- 2. Allegory and the Rhetorical Example in Poetic
- 3. The Displacement of Allegory by Example
- Index
- Footnotes:
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