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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... kind of poet he was . We speak of the twentieth century view as right and of nineteenth century opinion as wrong - needing total correction . Yet the work of Scott , Lowell , and Saintsbury , for example , was concerned to do justice to ...
... kind of poet he was . We speak of the twentieth century view as right and of nineteenth century opinion as wrong - needing total correction . Yet the work of Scott , Lowell , and Saintsbury , for example , was concerned to do justice to ...
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... kind of effectiveness , quite opposed to the gorgeous and rondure - sweep- ing poetry of Antony and Cleopatra , must be the responsibility of the adapter . From plays to their prologues and epilogues . Of these Dryden himself made the ...
... kind of effectiveness , quite opposed to the gorgeous and rondure - sweep- ing poetry of Antony and Cleopatra , must be the responsibility of the adapter . From plays to their prologues and epilogues . Of these Dryden himself made the ...
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... kind of reversal , implying that , now that the praise of music has been completed , the souls of the singers and hearers will " untune , " or " slacken , " as have the strings of the actual instruments . But whatever the force of the ...
... kind of reversal , implying that , now that the praise of music has been completed , the souls of the singers and hearers will " untune , " or " slacken , " as have the strings of the actual instruments . But whatever the force of the ...
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