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 66
... nature is a wolf to man , and therefore the natural man who survives in society " should be hunted like a beast of prey " ( 212 ) . But Almanzor's role as natural man implies a fuller conception of nature . He rejects Boabdelin's ...
... nature is a wolf to man , and therefore the natural man who survives in society " should be hunted like a beast of prey " ( 212 ) . But Almanzor's role as natural man implies a fuller conception of nature . He rejects Boabdelin's ...
Page 141
... nature that is always the same " for Dryden is not that of the external world but instead that of the mind in its inmost workings . It is on these grounds that he responds to Rymer's notion that nature in Athens and Lon- don is the same ...
... nature that is always the same " for Dryden is not that of the external world but instead that of the mind in its inmost workings . It is on these grounds that he responds to Rymer's notion that nature in Athens and Lon- don is the same ...
Page 142
... nature . " Crites and his companions may possibly have believed that a perfect knowledge of nature was almost at hand . By the time of the " Preface to Fables , " however , Dryden is likely to have arrived at the more uncertain feel ...
... nature . " Crites and his companions may possibly have believed that a perfect knowledge of nature was almost at hand . By the time of the " Preface to Fables , " however , Dryden is likely to have arrived at the more uncertain feel ...
Contents
The Trivialization of Universal Harmony | 7 |
The Herculean Hero in All for Love | 31 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 43 |
Copyright | |
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