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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... turn to a recent biography by Charles Ward . In The Life of John Dryden , Mr. Ward analyzes the " extent and virulence " of the attacks on Dryden after Absalom and Achitophel in 1681. After his acceptance of Roman Ca- tholicism in 1685 ...
... turn to a recent biography by Charles Ward . In The Life of John Dryden , Mr. Ward analyzes the " extent and virulence " of the attacks on Dryden after Absalom and Achitophel in 1681. After his acceptance of Roman Ca- tholicism in 1685 ...
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... turns to its final conclusion ; for in order to bring it about he had to resort to a number of dramatic contrivances ... turn of affairs on such trifling dramatic tricks tends to weaken an action that in so many other more probable ways ...
... turns to its final conclusion ; for in order to bring it about he had to resort to a number of dramatic contrivances ... turn of affairs on such trifling dramatic tricks tends to weaken an action that in so many other more probable ways ...
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... turn against those which seemed hardly civilized at all . In Athens between the times of Pericles and Aristotle and especially in the Rome of Caesar and Augustus human nature and society seemed to be properly prized , superstition ...
... turn against those which seemed hardly civilized at all . In Athens between the times of Pericles and Aristotle and especially in the Rome of Caesar and Augustus human nature and society seemed to be properly prized , superstition ...
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