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... Corneille and Racine , not to speak of the tragedies of Voltaire himself . A letter explains it quite honestly thus : " What is frightful is that the mon- ster has a party in France : and to fill up the measure of calamity and horror ...
... Corneille and Racine , not to speak of the tragedies of Voltaire himself . A letter explains it quite honestly thus : " What is frightful is that the mon- ster has a party in France : and to fill up the measure of calamity and horror ...
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... Corneille and Racine he had in mind Scali- ger's comparison of Homer and Virgil . But he also alludes to Shakespeare : " Corneille was unequal like Shakespeare , and full of genius like him : but Corneille's genius was greater than ...
... Corneille and Racine he had in mind Scali- ger's comparison of Homer and Virgil . But he also alludes to Shakespeare : " Corneille was unequal like Shakespeare , and full of genius like him : but Corneille's genius was greater than ...
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... Corneille's Rodogune and the emphasis on Voltaire . They were produced and Racine was not . This explains the attention to French and German plays now totally forgotten ; it also explains the general polemical under- current against the ...
... Corneille's Rodogune and the emphasis on Voltaire . They were produced and Racine was not . This explains the attention to French and German plays now totally forgotten ; it also explains the general polemical under- current against the ...
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Preface A Introduction | 1 |
Neoclassicism and the New Trends of the Time | 12 |
Voltaire | 31 |
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