2. The Influence of the Classical Rhetorics

IV. English Renaissance Ideas of the Purpose of Poetry
1. Allegory and Example in Rhetoric
2. Allegory and the Rhetorical Example in Poetic
3. The Displacement of Allegory by Example


Index of Names





Part One

The General Theory of Rhetoric and of Poetry




Chapter I

Introductory



By definition the renaissance was primarily a literary and scholarly
movement derived from the literature of classical antiquity. Thus the
historical, philosophical, pedagogical, and dramatic literatures of the