Essential Articles for the Study of John DrydenHugh Thomas Swedenberg Archon Books, 1966 - 587 pages |
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Page xiii
... poems continue to raise . In one sense Mr. Thorn - Drury's remarks on Mac Flecknoe may be considered of interest as an historical document , a landmark in the renewed study of the poem in the twentieth century . In another , and per ...
... poems continue to raise . In one sense Mr. Thorn - Drury's remarks on Mac Flecknoe may be considered of interest as an historical document , a landmark in the renewed study of the poem in the twentieth century . In another , and per ...
Page 175
... poem abounds in mimicry or imitation of a more ambiguous and sportive kind . One notices , for example , an implicit but nevertheless striking parallel between the sub- stance itself of Dryden's poem and that of the Davideis , a re ...
... poem abounds in mimicry or imitation of a more ambiguous and sportive kind . One notices , for example , an implicit but nevertheless striking parallel between the sub- stance itself of Dryden's poem and that of the Davideis , a re ...
Page 281
... poem , because he calls it " historical , not epic , " in that it exhibits " but broken action , tied too severely to the laws of history " 1 — that is , it relates , without poetic fic- tion , things which actually happened , and in ...
... poem , because he calls it " historical , not epic , " in that it exhibits " but broken action , tied too severely to the laws of history " 1 — that is , it relates , without poetic fic- tion , things which actually happened , and in ...
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SAMUEL H MONK | 3 |
OSBORN | 18 |
Macdonalds Bibliography of Dryden | 54 |
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