The Arte of English Poesie
treatise by Puttenham
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contribution to punctuation
- In punctuation: Punctuation in English since 1600
…George Puttenham, in his treatise The Arte of English Poesie (1589), and Simon Daines, in Orthoepia Anglicana (1640), specified a pause of one unit for a comma, of two units for a semicolon, and of three for a colon, they were no doubt trying to bring some sort of order…
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discussed in biography
- In George Puttenham
…of the anonymously published The Arte of English Poesie (1589), one of the most important critical works of the Elizabethan age.
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