The Prelude to Poetry: The English Poets in the Defence and Praise of Their Own Art

abuse action admiration Aeneas ancient Aristotle beauty beleeve Ben Jonson called cause Cicero composition conceive CUDDIE Dante defence delight difference divine dooth doth dramatic effect Ennius Euripides evil excellent excite expression eyther faculty farre fayned feelings Greekes harmony hath highest Homer human imagination imitation indeede kind knowledge language learning less Lucretius lyric poetry Lyrical Ballads maketh manner matter metre metrical Milton mind mooved moral Muses naturall nature never object Orlando Furioso passage passions perfect Petrarch Philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch poems Poesie poetic diction Poetic Principle poeticall Poets prayse produced prose Reader reason ryme sayd sayth selfe sense shew sith song soul speake spirit stanza Statius teach teacheth Theocritus theyr things thou thought tion Tragedies true truely truth verse vertue Virgil words Wordsworth worthy write Xenophon