Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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Page 113
... poets have always had an equal right to license , but not to mate the savage with the tame , or to pair serpents with birds and lambs with tigers.21 He would have a poem of a piece ; not to begin with one thing and end with another : he ...
... poets have always had an equal right to license , but not to mate the savage with the tame , or to pair serpents with birds and lambs with tigers.21 He would have a poem of a piece ; not to begin with one thing and end with another : he ...
Page 152
... poem is but the second part of the Ilias , a continuation of the same story , and the persons already formed . The manners of Æneas are those of Hector , superadded to those which Homer gave him . The adventures of Ulysses in the ...
... poem is but the second part of the Ilias , a continuation of the same story , and the persons already formed . The manners of Æneas are those of Hector , superadded to those which Homer gave him . The adventures of Ulysses in the ...
Page 167
... poem of Palamon and Arcite , which is of the epic kind , and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias or the Æneis : the story is more pleasing than either of them , the manners as perfect , the diction as poetical , the learning as deep ...
... poem of Palamon and Arcite , which is of the epic kind , and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias or the Æneis : the story is more pleasing than either of them , the manners as perfect , the diction as poetical , the learning as deep ...
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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