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  • Puttenham, whose “Art of English Poetry” lay in Ms. some years before it was published in 1589, speaks of the posies on trenchers and banqueting dishes.

    Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

  • He became Rector of Puttenham, Surrey, and died in 1752, aged eighty-seven.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Exhortation to Peace, set forth in a Sermon preached on the Seventh of November, 1710, a Thanksgiving Day, by Thomas Swift, A.M., formerly Chaplain to Sir William Temple, now Rector of Puttenham in

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Puttenham writes that the poet resembles God “who without any trauell to his diuene imagination, made all the world of nought, nor also by any paterne or mould as the Platonists with their Ideas do phantastically suppose.”

    CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968

  • Puttenham (1589) — of Spain — Lopez Pinciano (1596) — and of Germany — Pontanus (1594), Opitz (1624).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

  • Like Puttenham, he makes a distinction between words as suited or unsuited for the epic style.

    Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos

  • The first aim both of Puttenham and of Webbe, the pioneers of Elizabethan criticism, was either to classify writers according to the subjects they treated and the literary form that each had made his own, or to analyse the metre and other more technical elements of their poetry.

    English literary criticism Various

  • An adaptation of the wellknown saying which Puttenham in his _Arte of English Poesie_ (ed. Arber, p. 217) attributes to Jean de Meung.

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • Spenser, sought diligently to compose in the quantitative metres of the classics; Puttenham, the author of one of the first English treatises on the Art of Poetry (1589), declared that by "leisurable travail" one might "easily and commodiously lead all those feet of the ancients into our vulgar language"; but while they may have satisfied themselves

    The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

  • Cf. Puttenham, "... many of his books be but bare translations out of the Latin and French ... as his books of _Troilus and Cresseid_, and the _Romant of the Rose_," Gregory Smith, _Elizabethan

    Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos

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