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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... language of England , in both prose and poetry . Dr. Johnson's famous dictum that “ by him we were taught sapere et fari , to think naturally and express forcibly , " appears to be also the standard critical opinion of our own day ...
... language of England , in both prose and poetry . Dr. Johnson's famous dictum that “ by him we were taught sapere et fari , to think naturally and express forcibly , " appears to be also the standard critical opinion of our own day ...
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... Language more refin'd and free . Our Ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation , than those Poets writ . Dryden's age looked back on the breakup of the Elizabethan and Jaco- bean poetry from a much closer viewpoint than ours ...
... Language more refin'd and free . Our Ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation , than those Poets writ . Dryden's age looked back on the breakup of the Elizabethan and Jaco- bean poetry from a much closer viewpoint than ours ...
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... language : thinks words ; his " thoughts " are not nearer thought than these inverted commas allow , and to him a tear may be an intellectual thing . The greatness of his work is sealed by language rather than by thought because poetry ...
... language : thinks words ; his " thoughts " are not nearer thought than these inverted commas allow , and to him a tear may be an intellectual thing . The greatness of his work is sealed by language rather than by thought because poetry ...
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