Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 23
Page 46
... sometimes thirty or forty lines , I mean besides the Chorus , or the monologues , which , by the way , showed Ben no enemy to this way of writing , especially if you look upon his Sad Shepherd , which goes sometimes upon rhyme , sometimes ...
... sometimes thirty or forty lines , I mean besides the Chorus , or the monologues , which , by the way , showed Ben no enemy to this way of writing , especially if you look upon his Sad Shepherd , which goes sometimes upon rhyme , sometimes ...
Page 61
... sometimes even to hexameter . But I need not go so far to prove that rhyme , as it succeeds to all other offices of ... sometimes there may be a greatness in placing the words other- wise ; and sometimes they may sound better , sometimes ...
... sometimes even to hexameter . But I need not go so far to prove that rhyme , as it succeeds to all other offices of ... sometimes there may be a greatness in placing the words other- wise ; and sometimes they may sound better , sometimes ...
Page 126
... sometimes in the city and sometimes in the camp , yet I have so ordered them that there is a coherence of ' em with one another , and a dependence on the main design : no leaping from Troy to the Grecian tents , and thence back again in ...
... sometimes in the city and sometimes in the camp , yet I have so ordered them that there is a coherence of ' em with one another , and a dependence on the main design : no leaping from Troy to the Grecian tents , and thence back again 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 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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