John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 51
... called an axiom . This axiom was to bear new and strange fruit in nineteenth- century literature . Upon Augustan verse its influence had been purely formal ; it had established a diction and a scheme of numbers . The single parallel ...
... called an axiom . This axiom was to bear new and strange fruit in nineteenth- century literature . Upon Augustan verse its influence had been purely formal ; it had established a diction and a scheme of numbers . The single parallel ...
Page 54
... called conventional . Virgil had conventionalized Homer . Dryden conventionalized Virgil . In the thirteenth book of the Odyssey Homer describes the harbor in Ithaca where Odysseus landed : There is in the land of Ithaca a certain haven ...
... called conventional . Virgil had conventionalized Homer . Dryden conventionalized Virgil . In the thirteenth book of the Odyssey Homer describes the harbor in Ithaca where Odysseus landed : There is in the land of Ithaca a certain haven ...
Page 71
... called Sandys " the best versifier of the former age " in the preface to the Fables , and Pope paired him with Dryden's Fairfax as a " model to Waller " in versification . The couplets of Sandys were what Drayton called them , " smooth ...
... called Sandys " the best versifier of the former age " in the preface to the Fables , and Pope paired him with Dryden's Fairfax as a " model to Waller " in versification . The couplets of Sandys were what Drayton called them , " smooth ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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