The Proper Wit of Poetry (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Proper Wit of PoetryFor Puttenham dissembling figures have the capacity to handle what Gascoigne calls 'some depth of devise in the Invention' Gascoigne himself named allegory as a means to wit or 'aliquid salis'. When poetry was commonly regarded as fiction with a rhetorical end, its rhetorical forms were found in figures involving the dissimulation of tropes. Later John Hoskins finds dissimula tion rather in figures that involve the use of discords or contraries, such as catachresis, irony, paradox, or litotes - all more or less fashionable. His own verse illustrates this turn of wit, whether in his well - known 'absence', which has been attributed to Donne, or in his lesser-known epigram Of the Loss of Time'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.