Essential Articles for the Study of John DrydenHugh Thomas Swedenberg Archon Books, 1966 - 587 pages |
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Page 359
... theory of divine right lay in its identification of obedience with moral standards that transcended the transitory ... theory . A theory of sovereignty in which law and right become one and in which no right exists except that of the ...
... theory of divine right lay in its identification of obedience with moral standards that transcended the transitory ... theory . A theory of sovereignty in which law and right become one and in which no right exists except that of the ...
Page 468
... theory of heroic poetry which , though it had long been connected with dramatic theory in Italy and France , and had been adopted to some extent by Davenant , Dryden may be said to have been the first Englishman to apply consciously and ...
... theory of heroic poetry which , though it had long been connected with dramatic theory in Italy and France , and had been adopted to some extent by Davenant , Dryden may be said to have been the first Englishman to apply consciously and ...
Page 506
... theory . The implications of this fact are important not only for a correct reading of Dryden , but for an understanding of the nature of neo - classicism . Dryden is the first English critic who offered a unified and consistent theory ...
... theory . The implications of this fact are important not only for a correct reading of Dryden , but for an understanding of the nature of neo - classicism . Dryden is the first English critic who offered a unified and consistent theory ...
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