History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2)

Note 276 — CHAP. III. HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, FROM THE LATTER YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY UNTIL TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH.

Thomasina Ross translation

Lo que ella (la poesia) solamente quiere,—es invencion, imagenes, affectos y alarde de todas sciencias.—And yet he has declared shortly before, that learning is not essential to poetry. It is not worth while to transcribe in the author’s own words, the other critical judgments here quoted.

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