A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 1 (of 3), Classical and mediæval criticism

Chapter III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

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Limitations of this chapter 447
The material it offers 448
The Formal Arts of Rhetoric 448
And of Poetry 449
Examples of Indirect Criticism: Chaucer 450
_Sir Thopas_ 451
Froissart 453

Richard of Bury 455
Petrarch 456
Boccaccio 457
His work on Dante 457
The _Trattatello_ 458
The _Comento_ 459
The _De Genealogia Deorum_ 460
Gavin Douglas 464
Further examples unnecessary 466

INTERCHAPTER III.

§ I. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE MEDIÆVAL PERIOD TO LITERARY 469
CRITICISM

§ II. THE POSITION, ACTUAL AND POSSIBLE, OF LITERARY 481
CRITICISM AT THE RENAISSANCE

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INDEX 487

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