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The Arte of English Poesie

by George Puttenham

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  1. 1The Arte of English
  2. 2Chap. I — What a Poet and Poesie Is, and Who May Be Worthily Sayd t…
  3. 3Chap. II
  4. 4Chap. III — How Poets Were the First Priests, the First Prophets, t…
  5. 5Chap — IIII
  6. 6Chap. V — How the Wilde and Sauage People Vsed a Naturall Poesie in…
  7. 7Chap. VI — How the Riming Poesie Came First to the Grecians and Lat…
  8. 8Chap VII — How in the Time of Charlemaine and Many Yeares After Him…
  9. 9Chap. VIII
  10. 10Chap. IX — How Poesie Should Not Be Imployed Vpon Vayne Conceits or…
  11. 11Chap. X — The Subiect or Matter of Poesie
  12. 12Chap. XI — Of Poemes and Their Sundry Formes and How Thereby the Au…
  13. 13Chap. XII — In What Forme of Poesie the Gods of the Gentiles Were P…
  14. 14Chap. XIII — In What Forme of Poesie Vice and the Common Abuses of…
  15. 15Chap — Xiiii
  16. 16Chap. XV — In What Forme of Poesie the Euill and Outragious Bahauio…
  17. 17Chap. XVI — In What Forme of Poesie the Great Princes and Dominator…
  18. 18Chap. XVII — Of the Places Where Their Enterludes or Poemes Drammat…
  19. 19Chap. XVIII — Of the Shepheards or Pastorall Poesie Called Eglogue,…
  20. 20Chap. XIX
  21. 21Chap. XX — In What Forme of Poesie Vertue in the Inferiour Sort Was…
  22. 22Chap. XXI — The Forme Wherein Honest and Profitable Artes and Scien…
  23. 23Chap. XXII — In What Forme of Poesie the Amorous Affections and All…
  24. 24Chap. XXIII — The Forme of Poeticall Reioysings
  25. 25Chap — Xxiiii
  26. 26Chap. XXV — Of the Solemne Reioysings at the Natiuitie of Princes C…
  27. 27Chap. XXVI — The Maner of Reioysings at Mariages and Weddings
  28. 28Chap. XXVII
  29. 29Chap. XXVIII — Of the Poeme Called Epitaph Used for Memoriall of th…
  30. 30Chap. XXIX — A Certaine Auncient Forme of Poesie by Which Men Did V…
  31. 31Chap. XXX — Of Short Epigrames Called Posies
  32. 32Chap. XXXI
  33. 33The Second Booke, of Proportion Poetical
  34. 34Chap. II — Of Proportion in Staffe
  35. 35Chap. III — Of Proportion in Measure
  36. 36Chap. III — How Many Sorts of Measures We Use in Our Vulgar
  37. 37Chap — IIII
  38. 38Chap. V — Of Proportion in Concord, Called Symphonie or Rime
  39. 39Chap. VI
  40. 40Chap. VII
  41. 41Chap. VIII — How the Good Maker Will Not Wrench His Word to Helpe H…
  42. 42Chap. IX
  43. 43Chap. X — Of Proportion by Situation
  44. 44Chap. XI — Of Proportion in Figure
  45. 45Chap. XII — How If All Maner of Sodaine Innouatians Were Not Very S…
  46. 46Chap. XIII
  47. 47Chap — Xiiii
  48. 48Chap. XV
  49. 49Chap. XVI — Of Your Verses Perfect and Defectiue; and That Which th…
  50. 50Chap. XVII — Of the Breaking Your Bissillables and Polysillables an…
  51. 51The Third Booke, of Ornament
  52. 52Chap. II — How Our Writing and Speaches Publike Ought to Be Figurat…
  53. 53Chap. III — How Ornament Poeticall Is of Two Sortes According to th…
  54. 54Chap — IIII
  55. 55Chap. V — Of Stile
  56. 56Chap. VI — Of the High, Low, and Meane Subiect
  57. 57Chap. VII — Of Figures and Figuratuie Speaches
  58. 58Chap. VIII
  59. 59Chap. IX — How the Greeks First, and Afterward the Latines, Inuente…
  60. 60Chap. X — A Division of Figures, and How They Serue in Exornation o…
  61. 61Chap. XI
  62. 62Chap. XII — Of Auricular Figures Pertaining to Clauses of Speech an…
  63. 63Chap. XIII — Of Your Figures Auricular Working by Disorder
  64. 64Chap — Xiiii
  65. 65Chap. XV — Of Auricular Figures Working by Exchange
  66. 66Chap. XVI
  67. 67Chap. XVII — Of the Figures Which We Call Sensable, Because They Al…
  68. 68Chap. XVIII
  69. 69Chap. XIX — Of Figures Sententious, Otherwise Called Rhetoricall
  70. 70Chap. XX — The Last and Principall Figure of Our Poeticall Ornament
  71. 71Chap. XXI — Of the Vices or Deformities in Speach and Writing Princ…
  72. 72Chap. XXII
  73. 73Chap. XXIII — What It Is That Generally Makes Our Speach Well Pleas…
  74. 74Chap — Xxiiii
  75. 75Chap. XXV

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