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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... force us out . Clamours , our privacies uneasy make : Birds leave their nests disturbed , and beasts their haunts forsake . · But drama is a mixed form ; pure magnificence will not carry it through . The poet who attempts to achieve a ...
... force us out . Clamours , our privacies uneasy make : Birds leave their nests disturbed , and beasts their haunts forsake . · But drama is a mixed form ; pure magnificence will not carry it through . The poet who attempts to achieve a ...
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... force . He wrote , accordingly , not treatises , but essays and dialogues . Three of his most important works are in the latter form , in spite of the fact that in each case Dryden had a partisan inter- est . In An Essay of Dramatic ...
... force . He wrote , accordingly , not treatises , but essays and dialogues . Three of his most important works are in the latter form , in spite of the fact that in each case Dryden had a partisan inter- est . In An Essay of Dramatic ...
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... forces which drive Antony first one way and then another . This manipulation of the plot has nevertheless one serious disadvantage in that Antony , presum- ably the protagonist , becomes the battle ground for contending forces , or ...
... forces which drive Antony first one way and then another . This manipulation of the plot has nevertheless one serious disadvantage in that Antony , presum- ably the protagonist , becomes the battle ground for contending forces , or ...
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