John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 273
... Mac Flecknoe was circulating in 1678 , it was Dry- den's , and Oldham drew upon it while writing his Horace and his Satyr against Poetry , or ( 3 ) it was Oldham's , and Dryden knew nothing of it until it was published ... MAC FLECKNOE 273.
... Mac Flecknoe was circulating in 1678 , it was Dry- den's , and Oldham drew upon it while writing his Horace and his Satyr against Poetry , or ( 3 ) it was Oldham's , and Dryden knew nothing of it until it was published ... MAC FLECKNOE 273.
Page 274
... Mac Flecknoe at hand , transcribed that poem too because he liked it , as Oldham before him had liked it . Whatever the date of Mac Flecknoe , and 1678 deserves con- sideration , Dryden's right to the poem still is and must be always ...
... Mac Flecknoe at hand , transcribed that poem too because he liked it , as Oldham before him had liked it . Whatever the date of Mac Flecknoe , and 1678 deserves con- sideration , Dryden's right to the poem still is and must be always ...
Page 275
... Mac Flecknoe was impossible for him the same year or the next . It has been remarked that Mac Flecknoe was in large part an attack on Shadwell's theory and practice of " humours " in comedy . It is significant that Dryden had for an ...
... Mac Flecknoe was impossible for him the same year or the next . It has been remarked that Mac Flecknoe was in large part an attack on Shadwell's theory and practice of " humours " in comedy . It is significant that Dryden had for an ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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