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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... Sense . Pope's lines , which derived no doubt from Roscommon's , gave the doctrine especial currency , and to echo sense with sound became a pleasant duty of versifiers . Pope himself told Spence that he " followed the significance of ...
... sense of political propriety ; pamphleteering in general offended his sense of the dignity of literature and poetry . Meanwhile he was developing a public voice of his own . The prologues and epilogues , the controversial prefaces , and ...
... sense and poetry as well as they , when that poetry and sense is put into words which they understand . " A more serious problem that had to be met in the process of modernization was the problem of versification . Dryden's dilemma at ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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