"Neoclassical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attention because it is the most thorough and specific of the remarkably few studies of the pastoral in an age when many thought it necessary to imitate Virgil's poetic career, and because it is, in many respects, a contribution to the more liberal tendencies within neoclassic criticism. Essentially, the Full Enquiry is a coherent expansion of the random comments collected in ...
— A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) • Thomas Purney
... of the neoclassical criticism of pastoral poetry. No other critic who wrote on the pastoral depends so completely on the authority of the classical critics and poets. As a matter of fact, Rapin himself is not so absolute later. In the section of the Reflexions on the pastoral, he merely states that the ...
— De Carmine Pastorali (1684) • Rene Rapin
... "the hyp." Despite the plethora of materia scripta on the subject it makes sense to reprint Hill's Hypochondriasis, because it is indeed a "practical treatise" and because it offers the modern student of neoclassical literature a clear summary of the best thoughts that had been put forth on the subject, as well as an explanation of the causes, symptoms, and cures of ...
— Hypochondriasis - A Practical Treatise (1766) • John Hill |
