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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... later Renaissance , but none of them , not even Jonson , can be regard- ed as a literary critic in our sense . John Dryden , who leaps the gap between the later Renaissance and the Enlightenment , is surely a crucial literary critic in ...
... later Renaissance , but none of them , not even Jonson , can be regard- ed as a literary critic in our sense . John Dryden , who leaps the gap between the later Renaissance and the Enlightenment , is surely a crucial literary critic in ...
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... later social formation to be indiscriminately composed of archaic vestiges which have not been fully incorporated and assimilated , a contradictory agglomera- tion of the ill - digested remains of precursory forms " whose partly still ...
... later social formation to be indiscriminately composed of archaic vestiges which have not been fully incorporated and assimilated , a contradictory agglomera- tion of the ill - digested remains of precursory forms " whose partly still ...
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... later satire suggests the anger behind Dryden's lines , and points the problem as well . Funeral elegies of the seventeenth century have a wider range of tone and diction than those of later eras , but even in 1649 grief usually sings ...
... later satire suggests the anger behind Dryden's lines , and points the problem as well . Funeral elegies of the seventeenth century have a wider range of tone and diction than those of later eras , but even in 1649 grief usually sings ...
Contents
The Trivialization of Universal Harmony | 7 |
The Herculean Hero in All for Love | 31 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 43 |
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