John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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... century Latin had led in the school curriculums , supplanting logic . Wolsey had advised that Virgil be " pronounced with due in- tonation of voice , " out of regard for " the majesty of his verse , " and during the first half of the ...
... century Latin had led in the school curriculums , supplanting logic . Wolsey had advised that Virgil be " pronounced with due in- tonation of voice , " out of regard for " the majesty of his verse , " and during the first half of the ...
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... century , but it eventually lost its meaning , so that when Lessing attacked it in 1766 , employing some of the weapons which Du Bos had used half a century earlier , it could offer only partial resistance . The parallel had not borne ...
... century , but it eventually lost its meaning , so that when Lessing attacked it in 1766 , employing some of the weapons which Du Bos had used half a century earlier , it could offer only partial resistance . The parallel had not borne ...
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... century were scarcely one- fourth as numerous as they had been in the eighteenth ; yet the nineteenth century saw four times as many editions . Tonson printed a very imperfect folio in 1701 consisting chiefly of Poems on Various ...
... century were scarcely one- fourth as numerous as they had been in the eighteenth ; yet the nineteenth century saw four times as many editions . Tonson printed a very imperfect folio in 1701 consisting chiefly of Poems on Various ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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Achitophel Alliteration appeared beauty began beginning believed better cadences called century character close composed couplets Cowley criticism death dedication Dryden early edition effect English epigram epilogue Essay expression Fables fire Flecknoe followed French genius give hand harmony heroic important Italy John Johnson kind King known language later learned least less lines live Mac Flecknoe manner master means mind nature never numbers once passage Persius pieces Pindaric plays poem poet poetic poetry Pope praise preface prologue prose readers reason remarked Restoration rhyme satire seems sense song soul sound speaking stanza style sweet things third thou thought translation true turn verse Virgil volume Waller whole writing written wrote