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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... seems worth while to proceed a little further and ask whether Dryden held any theories which might have been responsible for the obvious defects in his product . For it is evident that the unhappy passages to which exception has in ...
... seems never to have been out of Dryden's mind . As early as The In- dian Emperor he had made Guyomar declare to Odmar , his rival for Alibech : It seems my soul then moved the quicker pace ; Yours first set out , mine reached her in the ...
... seems reserved . " The Virgil and the Fables seem today to stand astride of the interval between Paradise Lost and Pope's Homer . For a generation at least , anyone who pretended to be a reader read them , as one who expected to be a ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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