Figures in a Renaissance ContextUniversity of Michigan Press, 1989 - 346 pages Essays on many of the most important literary figures of the 16th and 17th centuries |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Dialogues with Reality | 7 |
The Definition of Poetry | 29 |
The Comedy beyond Comedy | 47 |
A Poet Nearly Anonymous | 73 |
The Aesthetics of Morality | 89 |
The Transfiguration of Plainness | 117 |
The Merging of Contrarieties | 141 |
The Strategy of Indirection | 161 |
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