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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... translation which was to sweep Dryden and Jacob Tonson on to their great successes . Dryden believed that a translator was bound in all honor to enter gen- erously into the spirit of his original and present him fairly as the individual ...
Mark Van Doren. translation , " offering as reasons " want of time , the inferiority of our language , the ... translations of the episodes of Nisus and Euryalus and Mezentius and Lausus as they had stood under Dryden's name since the ...
... translated by Rolfe Humphries THE LOVE ETHIC OF D. H. LAWRENCE by Mark Spilka THE DIPLOMACY OF THE AMERICAN ... TRANSLATION edited by Rudolf Gottfried ( cloth $ 6.50 ) THE LIVING THOUGHTS OF KIERKEGAARD presented by W. H. Auden ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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