John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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... learned the secret architecture of reasoned verse ; learned to run swiftly yet carry heavy weights ; learned his favorite images of darkness and light , eclipse and chaos , ordered atoms and whirling worlds . In a third master , Ovid ...
... learned the secret architecture of reasoned verse ; learned to run swiftly yet carry heavy weights ; learned his favorite images of darkness and light , eclipse and chaos , ordered atoms and whirling worlds . In a third master , Ovid ...
Page 10
... learned from Sappho , according to Addison , that persons in love alternately burn and freeze . He had learned from Virgil that in sudden fright the knees tremble and the breath deserts the frame . He had learned from Lucretius the ...
... learned from Sappho , according to Addison , that persons in love alternately burn and freeze . He had learned from Virgil that in sudden fright the knees tremble and the breath deserts the frame . He had learned from Lucretius the ...
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... learned to wield irresistible satiric cadences . Scorn for French farces and for Whig reformers had been sharpening Dryden's claws during the late 1670's . He had learned the ac- cents of mockery in such lines as these from the prologue ...
... learned to wield irresistible satiric cadences . Scorn for French farces and for Whig reformers had been sharpening Dryden's claws during the late 1670's . He had learned the ac- cents of mockery in such lines as these from the prologue ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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