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Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European Renaissance-scholars, critics, and poets-found Hermogenes' Concerning Ideas both important and extremely useful, and she finds that they vigorously applied h



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*Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*1. "Imitation of Great Masters": Decorum of Style, pg. 1*2. "The Seven Capital Stars": Descriptions of the Seven Ideas, pg. 44*3. "High Talk": Canzone and Ode, pg. 69*4. "Savage Indignation": Elizabethan Satire, pg. 97*5. "True Nakedness": Elizabethan Sonnets, pg. 122*6. "Courage Means Running": The Idea of Speed, pg. 153*7. "The Grand Master-Piece to Observe": Renaissance Epic, pg. 176*Conclusion, pg. 214*Bibliography. Some Renaissance Editions and Translations of Hermogenes, 1500-1650, pg. 219*General Bibliography, pg. 221*Index, pg. 231

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 08/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691620848, 978-0691620848
      ISBN10: 0691620849
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      Book Synopsis

      Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European Renaissance-scholars, critics, and poets-found Hermogenes' Concerning Ideas both important and extremely useful, and she finds that they vigorously applied h



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*1. "Imitation of Great Masters": Decorum of Style, pg. 1*2. "The Seven Capital Stars": Descriptions of the Seven Ideas, pg. 44*3. "High Talk": Canzone and Ode, pg. 69*4. "Savage Indignation": Elizabethan Satire, pg. 97*5. "True Nakedness": Elizabethan Sonnets, pg. 122*6. "Courage Means Running": The Idea of Speed, pg. 153*7. "The Grand Master-Piece to Observe": Renaissance Epic, pg. 176*Conclusion, pg. 214*Bibliography. Some Renaissance Editions and Translations of Hermogenes, 1500-1650, pg. 219*General Bibliography, pg. 221*Index, pg. 231

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