Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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... poesy , and in some surpass them ; neither know I any reason why I may not be as zealous for the reputation of our age , as we find the Ancients themselves in reference to those who lived before them . For you hear your Horace saying ...
... poesy , and in some surpass them ; neither know I any reason why I may not be as zealous for the reputation of our age , as we find the Ancients themselves in reference to those who lived before them . For you hear your Horace saying ...
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... poesy as blank verse amongst them . Therefore , at most ' tis but a poetic prose , a sermo pedestris ; and as such , most fit for comedies , where I acknowledge rhyme to be improper Farther , as to that quotation of Aristotle , our ...
... poesy as blank verse amongst them . Therefore , at most ' tis but a poetic prose , a sermo pedestris ; and as such , most fit for comedies , where I acknowledge rhyme to be improper Farther , as to that quotation of Aristotle , our ...
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... poesy must resemble natural truth , but it must be ethical . Indeed the poet dresses truth , and adorns nature , but does not alter them : Fiction made for delight should resemble truth.10 Therefore that is not the best poesy which ...
... poesy must resemble natural truth , but it must be ethical . Indeed the poet dresses truth , and adorns nature , but does not alter them : Fiction made for delight should resemble truth.10 Therefore that is not the best poesy which ...
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