Patterson, Annabel M.

Hermogenes and the Renaissance : seven ideas of style / Annabel M. Patterson.

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1970.

xv, 240 pages ; 23 cm

Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European Renaissance-scholars, critics, and poets-found Hermogenes’ Concerning Ideas both important and extremely useful, and she finds that they vigorously applied his concepts to create “a lovely conformitie.” The author first gives the history of this treatise on style and a detailed critical analysis of the Seven Ideas or categories of style. The book then demonstrates genre by genre how knowledge of the Seven Ideas can improve one’s understanding of poetic development, especially in England, and reveals how the Ideas operate in the works of Tasso, Donne, Sidney, Shakespeare, Marvell, Jonson, Spenser, Milton , and many other poets and critics.

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Hermogenes, active 2nd century. Peri ideōn.
Hermogenes, the Rhetorician.
Hermogenes, rhetorician. Peri ideōn.
Hermogène de Tarse. . Peri ideōn.
Hermogenes Tarsensis 160-225
Hermogenes, active 2nd century. Peri ideon.
Hermogenes (Tarsensis)
Peri ideōn (Hermogenes)
European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600 History and criticism Theory, etc.
Rhetoric, Renaissance.
Literary style.
Littérature 15e et 16e siècles Histoire et critique.
Littérature européenne 1450-1600 (Renaissance) Histoire et critique Théorie, etc.
Rhétorique de la Renaissance.
Style littéraire.
Rezeption
European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600 History and criticism.
Geschichte 1450-1600
Hermogenes 2nd cent Peri ideōn
Style, Literary

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Location: Library main 87872
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:93-B2198
Status: Available