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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... image breathes reconciliation . It recalls vaguely the bright images which are associated with Cleopatra in the play . And the grimness of the extinguished torch and the dark desert is replaced by the quiet of evening . This impression ...
... image breathes reconciliation . It recalls vaguely the bright images which are associated with Cleopatra in the play . And the grimness of the extinguished torch and the dark desert is replaced by the quiet of evening . This impression ...
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... images expressive of an enlarged sense of the world and a reduced sense of the world's importance ; the images are vivid , firm , comprehensive , and judicial : Theirs was the Gyant Race , before the Flood . The second Temple was not ...
... images expressive of an enlarged sense of the world and a reduced sense of the world's importance ; the images are vivid , firm , comprehensive , and judicial : Theirs was the Gyant Race , before the Flood . The second Temple was not ...
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... images by hypothesis and a sequence of logic , a method adapted and modified from the Metaphysical poets ; as Dryden employs the method , the argu- ment leads to the images rather than following them , in the manner of Donne , as ...
... images by hypothesis and a sequence of logic , a method adapted and modified from the Metaphysical poets ; as Dryden employs the method , the argu- ment leads to the images rather than following them , in the manner of Donne , as ...
Contents
INTRODUCTIONBernard N Schilling | 1 |
JOHN DRYDENT S Eliot | 8 |
THE INTELLECTUAL MILIEU OF JOHN DRYDEN | 17 |
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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