Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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... verse , or the measure of verse kept exactly without rhyme . These numbers therefore are fittest for a play ; the others for a paper of verses or a poem ; blank verse being as much below them as rhyme is improper for the drama . And if ...
... verse , or the measure of verse kept exactly without rhyme . These numbers therefore are fittest for a play ; the others for a paper of verses or a poem ; blank verse being as much below them as rhyme is improper for the drama . And if ...
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... verse so tedious : for though , most commonly , the sense is to be confined to the couplet , yet nothing that does perpetuo tenore fluere , run in the same channel , can please always . ' Tis like the murmuring of a stream which , not ...
... verse so tedious : for though , most commonly , the sense is to be confined to the couplet , yet nothing that does perpetuo tenore fluere , run in the same channel , can please always . ' Tis like the murmuring of a stream which , not ...
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... verse ; the other more fit for the ends of government , which is rhyme . Blank verse is , indeed , the nearer prose , but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor . Rhyme ( for I will deal clearly ) has somewhat of the ...
... verse ; the other more fit for the ends of government , which is rhyme . Blank verse is , indeed , the nearer prose , but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor . Rhyme ( for I will deal clearly ) has somewhat of 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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