Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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Page 70
... imitation of nature , and “ if nature be to be imitated , then there is a rule for imitating nature rightly ... imitation of nature and those means which have been found to imitate so as to please centuries of readers must obviously be ...
... imitation of nature , and “ if nature be to be imitated , then there is a rule for imitating nature rightly ... imitation of nature and those means which have been found to imitate so as to please centuries of readers must obviously be ...
Page 127
... imitation of Homer : " We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate , by forming himself on the invention and the work of another man ; for he enters into thè lists like ...
... imitation of Homer : " We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate , by forming himself on the invention and the work of another man ; for he enters into thè lists like ...
Page 128
... imitation of what is excellent , in that part of the preface which related only to myself , methinks it would neither be unprofitable nor unpleasant to inquire how far we ought to imitate our own poets , Shakespeare and Fletcher , in ...
... imitation of what is excellent , in that part of the preface which related only to myself , methinks it would neither be unprofitable nor unpleasant to inquire how far we ought to imitate our own poets , Shakespeare and Fletcher , in ...
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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acknowledge action admire allowed already Ancients answer appear argument Aristotle audience beauties beginning better betwixt called cause characters Chaucer comedy compass concernment conclude Corneille criticism defend delight discourse Dryden English equal errors Essay example excellent expression faults Fletcher follow French give given greater greatest Greek Homer humour imagination imitation Jonson judge judgment kind language latter least leave less lines lived manners means move nature never observed occasion opinion passions perfection perhaps persons pity Plautus play pleased plot poem poesy poet poetry practice preface present probability produce proper prove raised reader reason relation represented rest rhyme rule scene sense serious Shakespeare sometimes speak stage story supposed tell things thoughts tragedy translated true verse Virgil virtue whole wholly writ write written