John DrydenHarold Bloom Chelsea House, 1987 - 234 pages A collection of twelve critical essays on the work of Dryden, arranged in chronological order of original publication. |
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Page 59
... Court they crawl : Where , like them , too , they never are at rest ; But Bed and Board of Kings with Filth infest . Even Dryden himself could not repeat the achievement of Absalom and Achitophel . By 1688 the tide had turned . The ...
... Court they crawl : Where , like them , too , they never are at rest ; But Bed and Board of Kings with Filth infest . Even Dryden himself could not repeat the achievement of Absalom and Achitophel . By 1688 the tide had turned . The ...
Page 204
... court poetry ; the histrionic raillery and violent imagery that sometimes weaken this poem . would find a more appropriate place in the great satires of his maturity . When Dryden personifies " Beauty and Learning ” in the opening lines ...
... court poetry ; the histrionic raillery and violent imagery that sometimes weaken this poem . would find a more appropriate place in the great satires of his maturity . When Dryden personifies " Beauty and Learning ” in the opening lines ...
Page 207
... court panegyrics , a source already detectable in the Hastings elegy : Dryden's sense of having been born too late , his longing for an irrecoverable past . While the panegyrics normally invoke that past by alluding to myth or ancient ...
... court panegyrics , a source already detectable in the Hastings elegy : Dryden's sense of having been born too late , his longing for an irrecoverable past . While the panegyrics normally invoke that past by alluding to myth or ancient ...
Contents
The Trivialization of Universal Harmony | 7 |
The Herculean Hero in All for Love | 31 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 43 |
Copyright | |
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