Dryden: A Collection of Critical EssaysBernard Nicholas Schilling Prentice-Hall, 1963 - 186 pages Introduction / Bernard N. Schilling -- John Dryden / T.S. Eliot -- The intellectual milieu of John Dryden / Louis I. Bredvold -- The medal of John Bayes / James M. Osborn -- An allusion to Europe : Dryden and poetic tradition / Reuben A. Brower -- Dryden's drudging / Edwin Morgan -- Dryden : Epistle to Charleton / Earl Wasserman -- On the poetics of terminal tragedy : Dryden's All for love / R.J. Kaufmann -- Tragedy and the heroic play / Moody E. Prior -- Some characteristics of Dryden's use of metaphor / Earl Miner -- Dryden and the atoms of Epicurus / Edward N. Hooker -- Ode on Anne Killigrew / E.M.W. Tillyard -- The odes to music / John Hollander -- Various John Dryden : all, all, of a piece throughout / Arthur W. Hoffman -- Canons Ashby / David Wright -- Chronology of important dates. |
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... effect , though disastrous for the enemy , is very different from that of the hu- mor which merely belittles , such as the satire of Mark Twain . Dryden continually enhances : he makes his object great , in a way contrary to expectation ...
... effect , though disastrous for the enemy , is very different from that of the hu- mor which merely belittles , such as the satire of Mark Twain . Dryden continually enhances : he makes his object great , in a way contrary to expectation ...
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... effect of the portraits of Dryden is to transform the object into something greater , as were transformed the verses of Cowley quoted above . A fiery soul , which working out its way , Fretted the pigmy body to decay : And o'er informed ...
... effect of the portraits of Dryden is to transform the object into something greater , as were transformed the verses of Cowley quoted above . A fiery soul , which working out its way , Fretted the pigmy body to decay : And o'er informed ...
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... effect on the play are the other devices , typical of the heroic play , employed to set the stage for Antony's jealousy . It becomes necessary for Ventidius to overhear Dolla- bella weighing the claims of friendship and love , thus ...
... effect on the play are the other devices , typical of the heroic play , employed to set the stage for Antony's jealousy . It becomes necessary for Ventidius to overhear Dolla- bella weighing the claims of friendship and love , thus ...
Contents
INTRODUCTIONBernard N Schilling | 1 |
JOHN DRYDENT S Eliot | 8 |
THE INTELLECTUAL MILIEU OF JOHN DRYDEN | 17 |
Copyright | |
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Absalom and Achitophel Alexander's Feast Alexas allusion Anne Killigrew Antony Antony's appear Augustan Aureng-Zebe biblical Caesar Cecilia century character Charles Charleton's Chaucer claim Classical Cleopatra Congreve contemporary critical death Denmark diction divine Dollabella Doren drama Duchess of Ormond E. M. W. Tillyard elective elective monarchy Elizabethan English epic Epicurus epistle Essay expression fact genius heaven hero heroic couplet heroic play human imagery images intellectual John Bayes John Dryden king language lines literary Love Mac Flecknoe matter Medal of John ment Milton mind mode monarchy nature Octavia passage philosophical poet poetic poetry political Pope praise prologues readers reason reference Religio Laici Restoration satire seems sense Shadwell Shadwell's Shakespeare skepticism soul speech stanza Stonehenge strophe style suggests T. S. Eliot theme theory thou thought throne Timotheus tion tone tradition Tragedy treatise University untune Ventidius verse virtue whole words writing