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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... verse is as magnificent as Dry- den's , and who could see profounder possibilities in wit , and in violently joined ... verse . The question , which has certainly been waiting , may justly be asked : whether , without this which Dryden ...
... verse is as magnificent as Dry- den's , and who could see profounder possibilities in wit , and in violently joined ... verse . The question , which has certainly been waiting , may justly be asked : whether , without this which Dryden ...
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... verse in the first half of their century , which we ourselves do not deny ; and we must also concede that they would ... verse which in the Jacobean dramatists had seemed to break metri- cal bounds and become altogether too loose for ...
... verse in the first half of their century , which we ourselves do not deny ; and we must also concede that they would ... verse which in the Jacobean dramatists had seemed to break metri- cal bounds and become altogether too loose for ...
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... verse which did in fact save the play . I have called the circumstances fortunate because of the considerable ... verse to express something more important than this , significant though it is . As if with restraint and care unwilling to ...
... verse which did in fact save the play . I have called the circumstances fortunate because of the considerable ... verse to express something more important than this , significant though it is . As if with restraint and care unwilling to ...
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