Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poets: Studies in Renaissance Poetry and Poetics

The Netherlandish rhetoricians of the sixteenth century have, in the course of the last decades, shed their image of third-rate poets who, lacking all sense of true beauty, were capable only of pompous verbosity and a shallow manipulation of form. The new scholarly assessment has also shed light on...

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Main Authors: Henk Duits (Author), Marijke Spies (Author), Ton Van Strien (Author)
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