Excerpt from Comicall Satyre and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida Modern critics are prone to use the word satire to designate any work of literature which harbors a considerable Spirit of derision. They so describe incidental ridicule of folly or censure of wicked ness, no less than works entirely devoted to planned and sustained mockery and castigation. That is, they seldom restrict the term to the traditional literary forms in which the impulse to ridicule has become incarnate. On the other hand, when literary ...
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Excerpt from Comicall Satyre and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida Modern critics are prone to use the word satire to designate any work of literature which harbors a considerable Spirit of derision. They so describe incidental ridicule of folly or censure of wicked ness, no less than works entirely devoted to planned and sustained mockery and castigation. That is, they seldom restrict the term to the traditional literary forms in which the impulse to ridicule has become incarnate. On the other hand, when literary historians use the word in their analyses and descriptions of this small group of plays, they tend to restrict its meaning to personal lampoon. Much confusion in literary criticism has resulted in using the term, some times too loosely and sometimes too narrowly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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