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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... mind , of absent external objects ; but is a word of higher import , denoting operations of the mind upon those objects , and processes of creation and composition . " All this does not mean that Dryden and others who went to school to ...
... mind which created the poetry and the painting of the next century ; that frame of mind which made Sir Joshua Reynolds most of what he was as artist or as critic , but which eventually moved Ruskin and Blake to awful wrath . " To ...
... minds and actions both in fact and in fable with an endless relish . Books he treated from a single motive , admira- tion for them and their makers . Dryden was above all things a literary man . His mind could best be energized by ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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