The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke

by Leonard Cox

The University of Chicago

FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

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ENGLISH STUDIES

(No. V)

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LEONARD COX

THE ARTE OR
CRAFTE OF RHETHORYKE

A REPRINT

EDITED

WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARIAL INDEX

BY

FREDERIC IVES CARPENTER, Ph.D.

CHICAGO

The University of Chicago Press

1899

CONTENTS.

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Introduction: I. The Beginnings of Prose Criticism in England—Value of Cox's Rhetoric—Life of Cox—Birth and Education—Travels—Date of the Rhetoric—Letters : from Erasmus; to Toy and Cromwell—Leland on Cox's Learning—Schoolmaster at Reading——The Frith affair—Later Years	7-18
II. List of Works by Cox	18-22
III. The Rhetoric of Cox—Renaissance Rhetoric—Passages on Rhetoric in England preceding Cox : Traversanus ; Caxton ; Hawes—Aim and Plan of Cox's Work—Its Source : Melanchthon—Cox and contemporary English Prose—Chief English Writers on Rhetoric following Cox : Wilson, Jonson, Bacon	22-33
A.—Appendix: Minor Rhetorical Writings of the Sixteenth Century in England : Sherry, Kamolde, Ascham, Fulwood, Peacham, Harvey, Mulcaster, Fenner, Fraunce, etc.	33-34
An Analysis and Outline of the Rhetoric of Melanchthon in Mosellanus' "In Philippi Melanchthonis Rhetorica Tabulae" (serving equally as an analytical Table of Contents for Cox)	35-38
The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke, by Leonard Cox : Reprint of the edition of circa 1530, with variorum readings from the edition of 1532	39-88
Melanchthon's "Institutiones Rhetoricae," 1521: Reprint of the portion dealing with Invention	89-102
Notes	103-112
Glossarial, Technical, and Personal Index	113-117