Scottish poetics and literary criticism from James the sixth to Francis Jeffrey
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Lawson, Thomas Strang
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2018-09-13T16:02:45Z
dc.date.available
2018-09-13T16:02:45Z
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1930
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dc.description.abstract
I have tried to present the substance
and spirit of the writing done by Scotsmen in
the field of poetics and literary criticism,
from James the Sixth doom to Francis Jeffrey.
In this body of material, as we have see,
investigation of principles bulks larger than
actual practice of criticism. Possibly it
appears sophistical thus to segregate Scottish
criticism from the English critical literature of
which it is a part. Yet separate treatment may
assist comprehension by its emphasis on certain
pervading national characteristics: the flair
for rationalization, the insistence on morality,
and the passion for fundamentals. Francis Jeffrey-
-is the chief practicing exponent in literary
criticism of the Scottish aesthetical formulae
of the eighteenth century, and no study of these
formulae is complete which does not include him.
In a fashion he completes the epoch, and with him
we reach a natural halting-place.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1842/32483
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The University of Edinburgh
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dc.relation.ispartof
Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2018 Block 20
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dc.title
Scottish poetics and literary criticism from James the sixth to Francis Jeffrey
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dc.title.alternative
Scottish poetics and literary criticism from James VI to Francis Jeffrey
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Thesis or Dissertation
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dc.type.qualificationlevel
Doctoral
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dc.type.qualificationname
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
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