More: Utopia (1685 Burnet Translation)

...in some places, he uses rhetorical figures so intense that they would not be accepted today by a strict critic original: "severe Judge". I will not provoke the current masters of the stage by preferring the authors of the previous age to them; for although they all acknowledge that they fall far short of Ben Jonson, Beaumont, and Fletcher, I believe they are more pleased to say this themselves than to have it pointed out by others. Their language is certainly more appropriate original: "properer" and more natural now than it was formerly, mainly due to the correction provided by the play The Rehearsal A satirical play (1671) by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, that mocked the overblown and artificial style of then-popular "heroic dramas". It is also to be hoped that the Essay on Poetry Likely referring to the 1682 poem by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, which established rules for literary taste—which can be well matched with the best works produced even during the age of Augustus The "Augustan Age" of Rome (27 BCE – 14 CE), considered the gold standard for classical literature—will have an even more powerful effect, provided that clear sense, joined with direct but gentle criticism original: "home but gentle Reproofs", can influence our writers,