John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 73
... dedication of the Aeneis he had long ago collected the materials , but which he never published , might have been anything but exhaustive . Yet there can be no ques- tion that he experimented freely and was always sensitive to novel ...
... dedication of the Aeneis he had long ago collected the materials , but which he never published , might have been anything but exhaustive . Yet there can be no ques- tion that he experimented freely and was always sensitive to novel ...
Page 93
... dedication of the Aeneis , " the French are as much better critics than the English as they are worse poets . " His habit of depreciation he had contracted in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy , where the regularity of the French had been ...
... dedication of the Aeneis , " the French are as much better critics than the English as they are worse poets . " His habit of depreciation he had contracted in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy , where the regularity of the French had been ...
Page 102
... dedication of The Rival Ladies , the prologue to the Tempest , and the prologue to Troilus and Cressida are loci classici of criticism . He knew the text of Shakespeare's major dramas as well as he knew his own works ; his plays are ...
... dedication of The Rival Ladies , the prologue to the Tempest , and the prologue to Troilus and Cressida are loci classici of criticism . He knew the text of Shakespeare's major dramas as well as he knew his own works ; his plays are ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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