[172] Arber, p. 95.

[173] The pseudo-Demetrius, author of the _De elecutione_.

[174] P. 316.

[175] Sandys, _History of Cla.s.sical Scholarship_, pp. 541-2.

[176] M. Schwab, _op. cit._

[177] _Poetische Theorien in der italienischen Fruhrenaissance_ (Berlin, 1900), p. 88.

[178] _Defense_, in Smith, I, 196-197.

[179] Vossius, _De artis poeticae natura_, II, 3-4.

[180] _Poetics_, I, 2.

[181] _Poetica_, 23, 190.

[182] _De artis poeticae natura_, II, 4.

[183] _Euphues_, edited by M. W. Croll and H. Clemens (New York), Introd.

iv.

[184] Preface to Maggi's _Aristotle_ (1550), p. 2.

[185] Prolog. _ibid._, p. 15.

[186] Spingarn, p. 312.

[187] Jacob Ponta.n.u.s, S. J., _Poeticarum inst.i.tutionum libri tres_ (Ingolstadi, 1594), p. 36.

[188] _Ibid_, p. 81.

[189] "Tres autem sunt virtutes narrationis, brevitas, perspicuitas, probabilitas. Secundam & tertiam diligentissime consectabitur Epicus, earumque rationem a Rhetoricae magistris percepiet," p. 72. These three virtues of a "narratio" are based on the a.n.a.lysis of the _Rhetorica ad Alexandrum_.

[190] Arist., _Rhet._, III. 16.

[191] _Op. cit_,, p. 26.

[192] Spingarn, p. 313.

[193] _Lit. Crit._, p. 255.

[194] _Ibid._, p. 262.

[195] Arber, pp. 138-141.

[196] Spingarn, pp. 174, 256.

[197] Smith, I, 48.

[198] Smith, I, 59.

[199] _Ibid._, p. 60.

[200] I, 2.

[201] II, 12.

[202] IV, 63.

[203] _Topics_, 83.

[204] VI, ii, 8 _seq._ Quintilian also uses the Greek terms.

[205] X, i, 46-131.

[206] _Op. cit._, pp. 275-398.

[207] II, 154 seq.

[208] P. 187.

[209] G.S. Gordon, "Theophrastus" in _Eng. Lit. and the Cla.s.sics_, p.

49-86.

[210] Smith, I, 128

[211] _Ibid._, 130-131.

[212] Cf. Spingarn, pp. 298-304, for a good account of reformed versifying in England.

[213] Smith, I, 137.

[214] John Northbrooke antic.i.p.ated Gosson by two years in his attack on the stage, but did not include poets in his t.i.tle.

[215] Spingam, pp. 256-258.

[216] Smith, I, 158.

[217] _Ibid._, I, 172.

[218] _Ibid._, I, 185.

[219] _Ibid._, I, 158-159.

[220] _Ibid._, I, 160.