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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... speech in Act 4 Scene 1 beginning " Men are but Children of a larger growth . " But the essence of simplicity which Dryden seems to be extracting in this play is perhaps best seen at two other points of the action . There is Antony's ...
... speech in Act 4 Scene 1 beginning " Men are but Children of a larger growth . " But the essence of simplicity which Dryden seems to be extracting in this play is perhaps best seen at two other points of the action . There is Antony's ...
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... speech to Octavia , in which , though confessing her charms , he dyes his speech with suggestions of her malevolence : Her eyes have power beyond Thessalian charms To draw the moon from heav'n ; for eloquence , The sea - green sirens ...
... speech to Octavia , in which , though confessing her charms , he dyes his speech with suggestions of her malevolence : Her eyes have power beyond Thessalian charms To draw the moon from heav'n ; for eloquence , The sea - green sirens ...
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... speech has the air of resignation , and is almost immediately fol- lowed by the somber image of the extinguished torch . After he has wounded himself , he sees Cleopatra once more , " The one dear jewel that his haste forgot , " and ...
... speech has the air of resignation , and is almost immediately fol- lowed by the somber image of the extinguished torch . After he has wounded himself , he sees Cleopatra once more , " The one dear jewel that his haste forgot , " and ...
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