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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... readings that should help to alleviate Mr. Morgan's reservations about them . Mr. Miner , in turn , shows how far we may advance our reading of the great satires if we consider them as poetic wholes " controlled " by meta- phorical ...
... readings that should help to alleviate Mr. Morgan's reservations about them . Mr. Miner , in turn , shows how far we may advance our reading of the great satires if we consider them as poetic wholes " controlled " by meta- phorical ...
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... reader exactly the wrong clue . III Dr. Johnson , who was by temperament and reading one of the best qualified critics Dryden has ever had , has remarked that “ his composi- tions are the effects of a vigorous genius operating upon ...
... reader exactly the wrong clue . III Dr. Johnson , who was by temperament and reading one of the best qualified critics Dryden has ever had , has remarked that “ his composi- tions are the effects of a vigorous genius operating upon ...
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... reading of the epistle discloses that after his survey of science from Aristotle to Charleton , Dryden turns to Charles II and somehow makes a transition from notes on Charleton's theory ( that Stonehenge was a Danish palace ) to a ...
... reading of the epistle discloses that after his survey of science from Aristotle to Charleton , Dryden turns to Charles II and somehow makes a transition from notes on Charleton's theory ( that Stonehenge was a Danish palace ) to a ...
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