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  • _How the riming Poesie came first to the Grecians and Latines, and had altered and almost split their maner of Poesie_.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • _Of historicall Poesie, by which the famous acts of Princes and the vertuous and worthy liues of our forefathers were reported.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Of historicall Poesie, by which the famous acts of princes and the vertuous and worthy liues of our forefathers were reported.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Hebrues & Chaldees who were more ancient then the Greekes, did not only use a metricall Poesie, but also with the same a maner or rime, as hath bene of late obserued by learned men.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Of historicall Poesie, by which the famous acts of Princes and the vertuous and worthy liues of our forefathers were reported.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • But the Hebrues & Chaldees who were more ancient then the Greekes, did not only vse a metricall Poesie, but also with the same a maner of rime, as hath bene of late obserued by learned men.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • "Poesie" (as Puttenham well says in his _Art of English Poesie_, 1589) "is more ancient than the artificiall of the Greeks and Latines, and used of the savage and uncivill, who were before all science and civilitie.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • Frankfurt am Main: 1962; Poesie, 1962; Ausgewählte Gedichte.

    Nelly Leonie Sachs. 2009

  • Poesie ist ein Zustand der Sprache, Helmut Heissenbüttel has said.

    Archive 2009-07-01 David McDuff 2009

  • This is the art of poetry (Poesie) in the broad sense of the term.

    Hegel's Aesthetics Houlgate, Stephen 2009

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