John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 45
... critics , and as only the worst of Dry- den is being considered in the present chapter , it seems neces- sary to bestow ... criticism of all Europe for at least two centuries aroused no Tacitus and was suffered to run its long course ...
... critics , and as only the worst of Dry- den is being considered in the present chapter , it seems neces- sary to bestow ... criticism of all Europe for at least two centuries aroused no Tacitus and was suffered to run its long course ...
Page 58
... criticism with his climax . Milton , in his preface to Paradise Lost , had categorically denied the possibility of true music to heroic verse , with its " jingling sound of like end- ings . " Augustan poets and critics themselves had ...
... criticism with his climax . Milton , in his preface to Paradise Lost , had categorically denied the possibility of true music to heroic verse , with its " jingling sound of like end- ings . " Augustan poets and critics themselves had ...
Page 68
... criticism in meter . In verse as in prose he earned Dr. Johnson's judgment that " the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet . " Personalities , actions , ideas , and art were Dryden's best material . But let it be said again ...
... criticism in meter . In verse as in prose he earned Dr. Johnson's judgment that " the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet . " Personalities , actions , ideas , and art were Dryden's best material . But let it be said again ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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