John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 70
... couplets which come very near to having Dryden's ring ; his England's Heroical Epistles ( 1597 ) afford the best examples . Drayton was a good Elizabethan , which suggests that there were many Elizabethans who could write Augustan couplets ...
... couplets which come very near to having Dryden's ring ; his England's Heroical Epistles ( 1597 ) afford the best examples . Drayton was a good Elizabethan , which suggests that there were many Elizabethans who could write Augustan couplets ...
Page 71
... couplets of Sandys were what Drayton called them , " smooth - sliding , " but they were neither as uniform nor as brisk as the new poetry was to require . Milton wrote four of his Cambridge poems in couplets which are not significant ...
... couplets of Sandys were what Drayton called them , " smooth - sliding , " but they were neither as uniform nor as brisk as the new poetry was to require . Milton wrote four of his Cambridge poems in couplets which are not significant ...
Page 72
... couplets which could teach Dryden nothing after Waller and Denham . Cowley handled this measure less felicitously than he handled any other ; the Davideis does not chime . Cleveland's political poems , which Dryden must have read before ...
... couplets which could teach Dryden nothing after Waller and Denham . Cowley handled this measure less felicitously than he handled any other ; the Davideis does not chime . Cleveland's political poems , which Dryden must have read before ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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