Dryden's SatireMacmillan, 1966 - 182 pages |
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... moral or physical strength , but because he is the focus of this universally significant action , the concern of gods as well as of men . Milton could write epic because he could still see man as the centre of interest in the universe ...
... moral or physical strength , but because he is the focus of this universally significant action , the concern of gods as well as of men . Milton could write epic because he could still see man as the centre of interest in the universe ...
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... moral earnestness . One reads it not with feelings of indignation , or even of moral disapproval of Shadwell , but with enjoyment of his superbly comic figure . < The strength of the poem is Dryden's dispassionate use of him as material ...
... moral earnestness . One reads it not with feelings of indignation , or even of moral disapproval of Shadwell , but with enjoyment of his superbly comic figure . < The strength of the poem is Dryden's dispassionate use of him as material ...
Page xxxiv
John Dryden D. R. Elloway. - bride with even a moral note sounded . There is a play of irony in the tactful abstractions themselves in ' variously ' in line 7 , for example — and the Biblical façade is almost shattered by the superbly ...
John Dryden D. R. Elloway. - bride with even a moral note sounded . There is a play of irony in the tactful abstractions themselves in ' variously ' in line 7 , for example — and the Biblical façade is almost shattered by the superbly ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO Absalom | xlvii |
TIME CHART | lv |
Copyright | |
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneid allusion Anglican Arts bless'd blood Catholic character Charles Church common couplet Court Crimes Crowd David design'd Dissenters divine Doctrine DRYDEN'S SATIRE dullness epic Essay ev'n ev'ry Exclusion Bill faith Fame Fate Father fear Foes Fool Friends Grace hast Heav'n heroic Hind Hist Hobbes Honour Horace Hudibras human humour James Jebusites John Dryden Juvenal King king's lines literary Lord Love Mac Flecknoe Medal mind mock-heroic Monarch Monmouth Native Nature ne'er never Noble o'er Panther Parliament parody Persius plain plays poem Poet poetry political Pope Popish Plot praise Priests Prince prose Protestant Puritans rais'd reason Rebel Reign Religio Laici Religion Rhyme Roman Sanhedrin Satire X Satires of Juvenal Scripture Sects Sejanus sense Shadwell Shadwell's Shaftesbury Soul spirit T. S. ELIOT thee thou thought Throne true truth try'd verse Virtue Whigs words write Youth