 Even the critics most positive in favour of the ludicrous side of the question admit the grand tragic effect of much of the latter cantos ; nor can they fairly do so much without also admitting a considerable portion of the earlier part of the poem to...  Poems, original and translated - Page 42by John Herman Merivale - 1838Full view - About this book
 | John Herman Merivale - English literature - 1814 - 168 pages
...portion of the earlier part of the poem to be equally serious. On the other hand, it is inrpossible to deny that, in the most serious passages, the reader...age in which the poem was written, nor the peculiar circumbefore ; next to correct him only, and let so many more ancient fathers wax old in those pleasant... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1984 - 328 pages
...poem however is very remote from Pulci, as one is led to suspect from the preface : in the Morgante 'it is impossible to deny that, in the most serious...low buffoonery or of the grossest profaneness,' and Merivale points out that 'the vice, so glaring in this poet, exists in a less offensive degree' in... | |
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