Lectures on Poetry
by Joseph Trapp
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About this eBook
- Author
- Trapp, Joseph, 1679-1747
- Title
- Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford
- Credits
- Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45420
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45420
- Release Date
- April 16, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LECTURES ON POETRY
- 2.The Translator's Advertisement .
- 3.The Author's Preface.
- 4.ERRATA.
- 5.LECTURE I.
- 6.LECTURE II, and III. Of the Nature and Origin of Poetry in general.
- 7.LECTURE IV, V, VI, VII. Of the Style of Poetry.
- 8.LECTURE VIII, IX, X, XI. Of the Beauty of Thought in Poetry; or of Elegance and Sublimity.
- 9.LECTURE XII. Of Epigram, and other lighter Species of Poetry.
- 10.LECTURE XIII. Of Elegy.
- 11.LECTURE XIV. Of Pastorals.
- 12.LECTURE XV. Of Didactic or Preceptive Poetry .
- 13.LECTURE XVI. Of Lyric Poetry .
- 14.LECTURE XVII, XVIII. Of Satire .
- 15.LECTURE XIX, &c. Of the Drama in general .
- 16.LECTURE XXIII, &c. Of Comedy .
- 17.LECTURE XXVI, &c. Of Tragedy .
- 18.LECTURE XXIX, &c. Of Epic , or Heroic Poetry .
- 19.CONCLUSION.
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