Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice: Classicism in the Rhetoric and Poetic of Italy, France, and England, 1400-1600Interprets the rhetoric and poetry of the Renaissance afresh from typical theory and practice as the first step toward interpreting those traditions of criticism which were most influential in the middle ages. |
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THE RENAISSANCE AS a Literary PERIOD | 3 |
LATIN GREEK AND THE VERNACULARS | 17 |
IMITATION OF PROSE FORMS CICERONIANISM | 39 |
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