Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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... essay on comparative literature in the English language which can rival the simultaneous partisanship and tolerance of the " Preface to Fables . " No English critic can match Dryden in this respect . Many of the greatest are , like him ...
... essay on comparative literature in the English language which can rival the simultaneous partisanship and tolerance of the " Preface to Fables . " No English critic can match Dryden in this respect . Many of the greatest are , like him ...
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John Dryden Arthur C. Kirsch. Of Dramatic Poesy : An Essay ( 1668 ) Dryden has two basic purposes in this essay : to defend the conventions and traditions of the English stage , and to justify his own use of rhymed heroic verse in ...
John Dryden Arthur C. Kirsch. Of Dramatic Poesy : An Essay ( 1668 ) Dryden has two basic purposes in this essay : to defend the conventions and traditions of the English stage , and to justify his own use of rhymed heroic verse in ...
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... essay ; it not only reveals him , it is about him . His temperament , his controversies , and above all , his responses to literature are the subject of the essay . For he writes not so much about literature as about himself in relation ...
... essay ; it not only reveals him , it is about him . His temperament , his controversies , and above all , his responses to literature are the subject of the essay . For he writes not so much about literature as about himself in relation ...
Contents
A Defence of An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 1668 | 70 |
Preface to An Evenings Love 1671 | 90 |
Heads of an Answer to Rymer 1677 | 115 |
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