Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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... allowed a poet , you take from him not only his license of ' daring anything , '90 but you tie him up in a straiter compass than you would a philosopher . This is indeed ' to cultivate the sterner muses . 91 You would have him follow 90 ...
... allowed a poet , you take from him not only his license of ' daring anything , '90 but you tie him up in a straiter compass than you would a philosopher . This is indeed ' to cultivate the sterner muses . 91 You would have him follow 90 ...
Page 150
... allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? and why they had so despicable an opinion of their judges as to thrust their indigested stuff upon them , as if they deserved no better ? With this account of my present ...
... allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? and why they had so despicable an opinion of their judges as to thrust their indigested stuff upon them , as if they deserved no better ? With this account of my present ...
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... allowed him : Homer's invention was more copious , Virgil's more confined : so that if Homer had not led the way , it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry . For nothing can be more evident than that the Roman poem is but the ...
... allowed him : Homer's invention was more copious , Virgil's more confined : so that if Homer had not led the way , it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry . For nothing can be more evident than that the Roman poem is but the ...
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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