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The Arte of English Poesie

by George Puttenham

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Printed in 1589, this treatise in three books first surveys poets and the kinds of poetry from antiquity to the court of Elizabeth, then explains proportion, metre and the shapes a poem can take, and finally catalogues the figures of rhetoric, giving many of them memorable English names. It preserves the original spelling of the first edition.

A primary text for students of Renaissance literature and a source Shakespeare scholars still quote. Download the free EPUB.

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