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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... learned the secret architecture of reasoned verse ; learned to run swiftly yet carry heavy weights ; learned his favorite images of darkness and light , eclipse and chaos , ordered atoms and whirling worlds . In a third master , Ovid ...
... learned from Sappho , according to Addison , that persons in love alternately burn and freeze . He had learned from Virgil that in sudden fright the knees tremble and the breath deserts the frame . He had learned from Lucretius the ...
... learned to wield irresistible satiric cadences . Scorn for French farces and for Whig reformers had been sharpening Dryden's claws during the late 1670's . He had learned the ac- cents of mockery in such lines as these from the prologue ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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