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The Arte of English Poesie

  
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THE FIRST BOOKE, Of Poets and Poesie.
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THE SECOND BOOKE, OF PROPORTION POETICAL.
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THE THIRD BOOKE, OF ORNAMENT.
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Of Ornament Poeticall.
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How our writing and speaches publike ought to be figuratiue, and if they be not doe greatly disgrace the cause and purpose of the speaker and writer.
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How ornament Poeticall is of two sortes according to the double vertue and efficacie of figures.
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Of Language.
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Of Stile.
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Of the high, low, and meane subiect.
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Of Figures and figuratiue speaches.
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Sixe points set downe by our learned forefathers for a generall regiment of all good utterance be it by mouth or by writing.
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How the Greeks first, and afterward the Latines, inuented new names for euery figure, which this Author is also enforced to doo in his vulgar.
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A diuision of figures, and how they serue in exornation of language.
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Of auricular figures apperteining to single wordes and working by their diuers soundes and audible tunes alteration to the eare onely and not the mynde.
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Of Auricular figures pertaining to clauses of speech and by them working no little alteration to the eare.
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Of your figures Auricular working by disorder.
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Of your figures Auricular that worke by Surplusage.
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Of auricular figures working by exchange.
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Of some other figures which because they serue chiefly to make the meeters turnable and melodious, and affect not the minde but very little, be placed among the auricular.
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Of the figures which we call Sensable, because they alter and affect the minde by alteration of sence, and first in single wordes.
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Of sensable figures altering and affecting the mynde by alteration of sence or intendements in whole clauses or speaches.
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Of Figures sententious, otherwise called Rhetoricall.
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The last and principall figure of our poeticall Ornament.
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Of the vices or deformities in speach and writing principally noted by auncient Poets.
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Some vices in speaches and writing are alwayes intollerable, some others now and then borne withall by licence of approued authors and custome.
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What it is that generally makes our speach well pleasing & commendable, and of that which the Latines call Decorum.
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Of decencie in behauiour which also belongs to the consideration of the Poet or maker.
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That the good Poet or maker ought to dissemble his arte, and in what cases the artificiall is more commended then the naturall, and contrariwise.
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The Conclusion.

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The Arte of English Poesie.
Contriued into three Bookes: The first of Poets and Poesie, the second of Proportion, the third of Ornament.

by

George Puttenham

1589

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