English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th Century

action admiration Aeneid alive ancient Aristotle beauty Ben Jonson better blank verse character Chaucer Cicero classics comedy composition Crites criticism D. H. LAWRENCE delight diction divine doth drama Dryden effect emotion English Euripides excellent express F. R. LEAVIS faults feelings French genius give Greek hath Homer honour Horace human humour imagination imitation Johnson judgement Keats Keats's kind knowledge language learning Lisideius living manner Metaphysical Poets metre metrical mind modern moral nature never object observed passions perfection perhaps persons philosopher Plato Plautus play pleasure plot Plutarch poem poesy poet poet's poetic poetry praise produced prose reader reason rhyme rules scenes sense Shakespeare Silent Woman soul speak spirit stage stanza style T. S. ELIOT things thought tion tragedy true truth unity Velleius Paterculus Virgil virtue words Wordsworth write