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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... readers care to make of it . It is an extended study of one poet's art . It stands or falls by the amount of truth ... reader for a " more or less enthusiastic " treatment of Dryden . I have kept my enthusiasm . Indeed , the revisions I ...
... readers or spectators to understand . Technical diction is barred for the benefit of " those men and ladies of the first quality , who have been better bred than to be too nicely knowing in the terms . " Here is the source of that ...
... reader read them , as one who expected to be a poet studied them . Dryden himself , compla- cently enough , was the first to admit his own supremacy ; know- ing that no man wrote better poetry , he said as much ... readers 238 JOHN DRYDEN.
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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