A Literary History of England: The Restoration and eighteenth century, 1660-1789, by George SherburnAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1948 - 1673 pages |
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... later , Dryden , like many another , was eager to celebrate the restoration of the monarchy . This he did finely in his poem Astræa Redux ( 1660 ) , a poem which later led enemies to remind him of his celerity in tergiversation . In an ...
... later , Dryden , like many another , was eager to celebrate the restoration of the monarchy . This he did finely in his poem Astræa Redux ( 1660 ) , a poem which later led enemies to remind him of his celerity in tergiversation . In an ...
Page 753
... later plays , is here fairly plausible . The characters are familiar types : Acacis , the young Mexican idealist , noble , though a prisoner of war ( " Virtue is calm in him but rough in me , " says Montezuma ) ; Traxalla , the villain ...
... later plays , is here fairly plausible . The characters are familiar types : Acacis , the young Mexican idealist , noble , though a prisoner of war ( " Virtue is calm in him but rough in me , " says Montezuma ) ; Traxalla , the villain ...
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... later than John Dryden's , it is interesting to compare these last voices in the neo - classic choir ( if indeed they belong there ) with the tones of Dryden and Pope , the partial founders of the tradition . Obviously the century ...
... later than John Dryden's , it is interesting to compare these last voices in the neo - classic choir ( if indeed they belong there ) with the tones of Dryden and Pope , the partial founders of the tradition . Obviously the century ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 696 |
Literary Criticism of the Restoration | 710 |
III The Poetry of Dryden | 722 |
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