Essential Articles for the Study of John DrydenHugh Thomas Swedenberg Archon Books, 1966 - 587 pages |
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Page 172
... poetic flights . 12 Yet Johnson's allusion to a basic article of the neo - classical faith - the notion of poetic imitation - has its bearing on the design of Dryden's poem as a whole . When fully construed the remark should lead to a ...
... poetic flights . 12 Yet Johnson's allusion to a basic article of the neo - classical faith - the notion of poetic imitation - has its bearing on the design of Dryden's poem as a whole . When fully construed the remark should lead to a ...
Page 549
... poet's imagination creates against a background of reality ; and in this transcendence , extravagance and hyper- bolical compliment play a major , comprehensible part . 22 Dry- den's exaggerations have a strict poetic function - they ...
... poet's imagination creates against a background of reality ; and in this transcendence , extravagance and hyper- bolical compliment play a major , comprehensible part . 22 Dry- den's exaggerations have a strict poetic function - they ...
Page 572
... poetic analysis of writing as we find it in Scaliger or Ronsard , a brief résumé of which appears in Reynolde's section on speech . And Dryden moves from the first section of the definition I have quoted easily on to the divisions of ...
... poetic analysis of writing as we find it in Scaliger or Ronsard , a brief résumé of which appears in Reynolde's section on speech . And Dryden moves from the first section of the definition I have quoted easily on to the divisions of ...
Contents
SAMUEL H MONK | 3 |
OSBORN | 18 |
Macdonalds Bibliography of Dryden | 54 |
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