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

Note 610 — Chapter III · THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.

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Mr Courthope must, I should think, have overlooked this passage when he denied (denied (loc. cit.) that Boccaccio and other mediæval writers held the doctrine that poetry should follow Nature.

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