John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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... beginning the best per- suaders , and their eloquence the first rhetoric of the world . " Ben Jonson was thoroughly familiar with the works of the classical and post - classical rhetoricians , and helped to establish a tradition of ...
... beginning the best per- suaders , and their eloquence the first rhetoric of the world . " Ben Jonson was thoroughly familiar with the works of the classical and post - classical rhetoricians , and helped to establish a tradition of ...
Page 185
... beginning of the Lucretius , the beginning of the Georgics , and the prayers in Palamon and Arcite are his most godlike pleas . " Landor once said to me , " wrote Henry Crabb Robinson in his Diary for January 6 , 1842 , " Nothing was ...
... beginning of the Lucretius , the beginning of the Georgics , and the prayers in Palamon and Arcite are his most godlike pleas . " Landor once said to me , " wrote Henry Crabb Robinson in his Diary for January 6 , 1842 , " Nothing was ...
Page 191
... beginning . Dryden's pro-- clivity towards the ode grew stronger each year . His addresses , his invocations , his hymns were only odes imbedded in heroic verse . Even a prologue might end with a lyrical rush , as for instance that " To ...
... beginning . Dryden's pro-- clivity towards the ode grew stronger each year . His addresses , his invocations , his hymns were only odes imbedded in heroic verse . Even a prologue might end with a lyrical rush , as for instance that " To ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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