Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books. (Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism.). William W. E. Slights

2003 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-279
Author(s):  
William Barker
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
English Renaissance ◽  
Editorial Theory

The Use of Poetry in the Training of the Ancient Orator

Traditio ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen North
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
English Renaissance ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion in his Observations in the Art of English Poesy remarks: ‘Poesy in all kind of speaking is the chief beginner and maintainer of eloquence, not only helping the ear with the acquaintance of sweet numbers, but also raising the mind to a more high and lofty conceit.’ This comment finds many parallels in treatises on literary criticism and the art of poetry in the English Renaissance, and is singled out for quotation here only because it calls attention to both of the major contributions of poetry to rhetoric, namely assistance in the development of artistic prose (especially when it includes the element of rhythm) and inspiration in the province of Invention.

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