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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... imagination is a life of sheer pretense . " Imagination , " runs a sentence in Hobbes's Physics , " is nothing else but sense decaying , or weakened , by the absence of the object . " This refusal to credit the imagination with original ...
... imagination , " he said in the preface to The Tempest , in the writing of which he had been assisted by Davenant the next year after Annus Mirabilis . " In the time I writ with him , I had the opportunity to observe somewhat more nearly ...
... imagination operating among the human passions under dra- matic strain ; one reason beyond all doubt being that the sepa- ration in current doctrine of wit from judgment , imagination from reason , rendered it difficult or impossible to ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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