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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... praise . " The inimitable Pindar " needs only to be mentioned . Isocrates and Demosthenes in ancient Greece and Cicero in ancient Rome wrote in a golden age of panegyrical prose . Rome saw a silver age in the famous twelve Panegyrici ...
... praise great Conquerors or to flatter Kings , wrote Rochester in his Allusion to Horace ; and when Dryden inserted ... praise rings with a round Roman grandeur . He writes as if he lived to praise , not praised to live . His lines speak ...
... praise both men and books , he was never in want of excellent models . Jonson's epistles to the owner of Penshurst ... praise whatever writing they approved , and the more copious too became critical vocabu- laries . In the seventeenth ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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