John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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... poets had been great and why , sounded Dryden to the depths for notes which it could recognize ; Lowell went eagerly through him , thinking to decide once for all how much of a poet he was , and revising his judgment at every tenth page ...
... poets had been great and why , sounded Dryden to the depths for notes which it could recognize ; Lowell went eagerly through him , thinking to decide once for all how much of a poet he was , and revising his judgment at every tenth page ...
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... poets , it is safe to say that he would never himself have become a poet of dimensions . No one was better aware of what he needed to read than he . " Mere poets , " he wrote in the postscript to the Notes and Observations on the ...
... poets , it is safe to say that he would never himself have become a poet of dimensions . No one was better aware of what he needed to read than he . " Mere poets , " he wrote in the postscript to the Notes and Observations on the ...
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... poet , as Lord Byron swears , then Dryden . was a very great poet . " Hazlitt , in his essay on Dryden and Pope , was no more inclined than Coleridge to credit either with essentially poetic powers , though as he surveyed them within ...
... poet , as Lord Byron swears , then Dryden . was a very great poet . " Hazlitt , in his essay on Dryden and Pope , was no more inclined than Coleridge to credit either with essentially poetic powers , though as he surveyed them within ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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