The Literary Criticism of Pierre Bayle: A Dissertation Submitted the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity With ... of Doctor of Philosophy (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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No examination, in any sense complete, has ever been made of the literary criticism of Pierre Bayle. Histories of literature give him only passing mention and make hardly any comment on the significance of his opinions about letters. The study of Betz, Pierre Boyle and die 'n ouvelles de lo République des' Lettres,' takes up the question at more length and gives an excellent general estimate of Bayle as a literary critic. But Betz' treatment is almost exclusively restricted to a single one of the numerous products of Bayle's pen, and since he discusses the several different aspects of the N owvelles, his analysis of Bayle's literary criteria is by no means detailed. Although Lenient, in his Etude sur Boyle, makes some just and accurate comments in the section which he devotes to the Scepticisme Litte'roire of the Rotterdam free-thinker, these, too, are brief and incomplete. The book on Pierre Boyle by Cazes contains a series of selections from Bayle's works, and one group of these has been chosen to illustrate the distinctive qualities of his literary criticism. But Cazes, in his own discussion, pays no attention to these qualities. In the various essays that have been written on Bayle, the remarks concerning his literary criti cism are decidedly meagre.

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