|
|
Showing 1 - 25 of
61 matches in All Departments
William Shenstone, 18th-century poet and landscape architect, was
also an important arbiter of English literary taste. His ideals of
poetry were simplicity, pastoral elegance, and an accent on the
innocent pleasures of country life. Shenstone's Miscellany was
carefully chosen to illustrate his theories of poetry. It contains
the verse of Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift, and many members of
Shenstone's circle.
Excerpt from Thomas Percy Und William Shenstone: Ein Briefwechsel
Aus Der Entstehungszeit Der Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Damals nannte Percy's Mitarbeiter und Korrespondent Ro bert
Anderson, der Herausgeber der British Poets, in einem Nachruf auf
den dahingegangenen Freund die Religues of Ancient English Poetry
'a work which constitutes an era in the history of English
literature in the eighteenth und auch vor der strengen Kritik der
neuesten Forschung ist diese hohe Bewertung zu vollem Rechte
bestehen geblieben. Die ersten Worte der Vorrede, durch die Sir
George Douglas Miss Gaussen's gerade veroffentlichter
percy-biographie 2) seinen Segen erteilt, lauten: 'there are few
modern books to which the much-abused epithet of 'epochmaking' is
more applicable than to Bishop Percy's 'reliques' An ahnlich
lautenden Urteilen von andern, berufensten Seiten ist kein
Mangelz3) Wir erkennen riickschauend in den Religues eine
befreiende Tat von augenblicklich zundender Wirkung, die sie
Young's Sendschreiben uber Originalkomposition und Mac pherson's
Ossianischen Gedichten, Chatterton's Traumen vom Mittelalter und
Horace Walpole's groteskem Schauerroman vom Schlosse von Otranto
neben oder fiberordnet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books
publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find
more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an
important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art
technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the
original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged
copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a
blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do,
however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully;
any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve
the state of such historical works.
|
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
