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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Page 73
... opening is the assault of the new science on the old , the language that conveys it is borrowed from the vocabulary of politics : Aristotle's domination over thought was a " Tyranny " that " sway'd " ; he alone supplied the " State ...
... opening is the assault of the new science on the old , the language that conveys it is borrowed from the vocabulary of politics : Aristotle's domination over thought was a " Tyranny " that " sway'd " ; he alone supplied the " State ...
Page 119
... opening six lines are not characteristic of Dryden ; they are an extreme case and must be presented as such , but their handling is in every other respect typical of the poet . I need not demonstrate the intellectual clarity of the ...
... opening six lines are not characteristic of Dryden ; they are an extreme case and must be presented as such , but their handling is in every other respect typical of the poet . I need not demonstrate the intellectual clarity of the ...
Page 172
... opening irony to the final moving appeal . The wryness of the opening compliment , the speaker's suggested disad- vantage , his gradual rise to the throne on which he seats Congreve , his bestowal of his laurels upon the younger man ...
... opening irony to the final moving appeal . The wryness of the opening compliment , the speaker's suggested disad- vantage , his gradual rise to the throne on which he seats Congreve , his bestowal of his laurels upon the younger man ...
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