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 45
... present Achitophel as the idea of a Wicked Politician , with contemporary reference , and has gathered numerous instances during the Restoration ( when the analogy of Charles ' exile and return with David's had become a commonplace ) of ...
... present Achitophel as the idea of a Wicked Politician , with contemporary reference , and has gathered numerous instances during the Restoration ( when the analogy of Charles ' exile and return with David's had become a commonplace ) of ...
Page 84
... present and past . We do not see the present through an allegory from or an analogy with the past ; we see past and present simultaneously . David does not simply stand for Charles II ; he does not merely resemble him ; David is Charles ...
... present and past . We do not see the present through an allegory from or an analogy with the past ; we see past and present simultaneously . David does not simply stand for Charles II ; he does not merely resemble him ; David is Charles ...
Page 110
... present real one . Significantly , the poem's vision of an ideal aesthetic future is expressed as the " translation " of Homer and Virgil from the past to the present , a conceit whose whole premise is a historical impossibility . " To ...
... present real one . Significantly , the poem's vision of an ideal aesthetic future is expressed as the " translation " of Homer and Virgil from the past to the present , a conceit whose whole premise is a historical impossibility . " To ...
Contents
The Trivialization of Universal Harmony | 7 |
The Herculean Hero in All for Love | 31 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 43 |
Copyright | |
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