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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... effect , made more sym- metrical , and given a greater appearance of finality . Now when the Italians established their identification between the poet and the orator they were able to offer to the poet handsome if questionable ...
Mark Van Doren. for its elegance and the antithesis for its effect of completeness and finality even when nothing ... effects rather than forces , with novelties and ardors rather than with truth . Not always sympathetic in theory with ...
... effects he should gain ; and he had a happy faculty for hitting at once upon rhythms which would secure those effects . His was not , like Doeg's , " a blundering kind of melody . " " There is nobody but knows , " declared John Oldmixon ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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