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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... final couplet . The initial poetic mode has at last been completely inverted , since the new science ( Charle- ton's treatise ) has become the metaphoric base for the political theme . The remaining artistic task is simply to filter the ...
... final couplet . The initial poetic mode has at last been completely inverted , since the new science ( Charle- ton's treatise ) has become the metaphoric base for the political theme . The remaining artistic task is simply to filter the ...
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... final trump ; but like the outraged angels and humbled spheres of the epigrams , that " music , " a sophisticatedly wrought construction from the stock of musica speculativa , is employed in praise of a practical music that is mundane ...
... final trump ; but like the outraged angels and humbled spheres of the epigrams , that " music , " a sophisticatedly wrought construction from the stock of musica speculativa , is employed in praise of a practical music that is mundane ...
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... final appearance of St. Cecilia as a peculiar sort of deus ex machina must be understood as operating within the convention of the St. Cecilia's Day music meetings , with which Dryden was of course familiar . She triumphs over Timotheus ...
... final appearance of St. Cecilia as a peculiar sort of deus ex machina must be understood as operating within the convention of the St. Cecilia's Day music meetings , with which Dryden was of course familiar . She triumphs over Timotheus ...
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