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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... appearance of weakness , either in his Virgil or elsewhere . Yet it was just in his Aeneis that he sur- rendered most completely to the tyranny of numbers . His boundless admiration for Virgil's metrical ... appeared rather FALSE LIGHTS 61.
... appearance . He was powerfully moved by the Longinus , which it seems he had not known in John Hall's English trans- lation of 1652 ; and the Art Poétique never ceased to appeal to him as a magazine of maxims . Dryden was in an ...
... appearance of swells in the stream of his heroic verse . That first appearance , as has been suggested before , is in the heroic plays , where the thump and rattle of the couplets is relieved from time to time by towering speeches like ...
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THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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