Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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... supposed longer by the audience ; ' tis therefore the poet's duty to take care that no act should be imagined to exceed the time in which it is represented on the stage ; and that the intervals and inequalities of time be supposed to ...
... supposed longer by the audience ; ' tis therefore the poet's duty to take care that no act should be imagined to exceed the time in which it is represented on the stage ; and that the intervals and inequalities of time be supposed to ...
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... supposed to be a com- position of several persons speaking ex tempore ; and that good verses are the hardest things which can be imagined to be so spoken : I must crave leave to dissent from his opinion , as to the former part of it ...
... supposed to be a com- position of several persons speaking ex tempore ; and that good verses are the hardest things which can be imagined to be so spoken : I must crave leave to dissent from his opinion , as to the former part of it ...
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... supposed to begin : and this is called nearest nature ; for that is concluded most natural which is most probable , and nearest to that which it presents . Thus he has only made a small mistake of the means conducing to the end for the ...
... supposed to begin : and this is called nearest nature ; for that is concluded most natural which is most probable , and nearest to that which it presents . Thus he has only made a small mistake of the means conducing to the end for the ...
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