Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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... story the characters are raised : and , since no story can afford characters enough for the variety of the English stage , it follows that it is to be altered and enlarged with new persons , accidents , and designs , which will almost ...
... story the characters are raised : and , since no story can afford characters enough for the variety of the English stage , it follows that it is to be altered and enlarged with new persons , accidents , and designs , which will almost ...
Page 152
... 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 Odysseis are imitated in the first six books of Virgil's Æneis ; and though ...
... 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 Odysseis are imitated in the first six books of Virgil's Æneis ; and though ...
Page 167
... stories , the noble 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 ...
... stories , the noble 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 ...
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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