John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 72
Mark Van Doren. u Prem . Al - Howard stress of our verse lies commonly upon the last syllable , you will hardly ever find him using a word of no force there . " Atterbury was inventing the chaotic state of English verse be- fore Waller ...
Mark Van Doren. u Prem . Al - Howard stress of our verse lies commonly upon the last syllable , you will hardly ever find him using a word of no force there . " Atterbury was inventing the chaotic state of English verse be- fore Waller ...
Page 90
... verse , though the connection between it and Dryden's rhyme is not easy to make , was also a valuable school for style . His earlier blank verse is not significant , being easy and banal in the late Elizabethan way , so that the printer ...
... verse , though the connection between it and Dryden's rhyme is not easy to make , was also a valuable school for style . His earlier blank verse is not significant , being easy and banal in the late Elizabethan way , so that the printer ...
Page 222
... verse of Chaucer , I confess , is not harmonious to us ; . . . they who lived with him , and some time after him , thought it musical ; and it con- tinues so , even in our judgment , if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower ...
... verse of Chaucer , I confess , is not harmonious to us ; . . . they who lived with him , and some time after him , thought it musical ; and it con- tinues so , even in our judgment , if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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