A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy
by George Saintsbury
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Contents
- Preface
- Preface
- Addenda and Corrigenda to Volume II
- Chapter I. Introductory—Erasmus
- Chapter II. Early Italian Critics
- Chapter III. Scaliger, Castelvetro, and the Later Italian Critics of the Sixteenth Century
- Chapter IV. The Criticism of the Pléiade
- Chapter V. Elizabethan Criticism
- Interchapter IV
- Chapter I. From Malherbe to Boileau
- Chapter II. The Italian Decadence and the Spaniards
- Chapter III. German and Dutch Criticism
- Chapter IV. Dryden and His Contemporaries
- Interchapter V
- Chapter I. From Addison to Johnson
- Chapter II. The Contemporaries of Voltaire
- Chapter III. Classicism in the Other Nations
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- II