John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryIndiana University Press, 1967 - 298 pages Discover the poetry of one of England's greatest writers with this insightful and engaging study of John Dryden's life and work. In "John Dryden", Mark Van Doren offers a detailed analysis of Dryden's poetic style, exploring the themes and structure of his most famous works and offering a fresh perspective on this literary giant. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
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... Cowley . " " The darling of my youth , the famous Cowley , " wrote Dry- den in 1693 , long after he had outgrown his young enthusiasms . There had been a time , shortly after he left Cambridge , when he had known Cowley's work minutely ...
... Cowley . It is fair to Cowley to say that if they had been exactly like him they would not have been so bad . Dryden approximated the plenty but not the sprightliness of his elder . Even in that plenty there were signs of strength ...
... Cowley had an interesting theory that the Hebrew poets were sharers with Pindar of the great secret . In his preface he re- marked : " The Psalms of David ( which I believe to have been in their original , to the Hebrews of his time ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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