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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... later have found it impossible to keep out of poetry . Whenever his career began , it engrossed him solely and entirely . In later years he liked to review this career ; his conception of it was dramatic , if not theatrical . He saw ...
... later , after what must have been a period of frequent experiments in more than one kind of meter . The poems to John Hoddesdon ( 1650 ) and to Honor Dryden ( 1655 ) had not told of any advance . But in this poem , as in the Annus ...
... later than 1676. It makes no capital out of Shadwell's politics , which were conspicuously Whiggish after the Popish Plot and which would naturally draw Dryden's fire after Absalom and Achitophel , The Medal , and particu- larly The ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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