CHAPTER III.

THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.

Limitations of this chapter 447 The material it offers 448 The Formal Arts of Rhetoric 448 And of Poetry 449 Examples of Indirect Criticism: Chaucer 450 _Sir Thopas_ 451 Froissart 453

Richard of Bury 455 Petrarch 456 Boccaccio 457 His work on Dante 457 The _Trattatello_ 458 The _Comento_ 459 The _De Genealogia Deorum_ 460 Gavin Douglas 464 Further examples unnecessary 466

INTERCHAPTER III.

§ I. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE MEDIÆVAL PERIOD TO LITERARY 469 CRITICISM

§ II. THE POSITION, ACTUAL AND POSSIBLE, OF LITERARY 481 CRITICISM AT THE RENAISSANCE

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INDEX 487

BOOK I

GREEK CRITICISM

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ἡ γὰρ τῶν λόγων κρίσις πολλῆς ἐστι πείρας τελευταῖον ἐπιγέννημα. —LONGINUS.