John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 46
... effect , made more sym- metrical , and given a greater appearance of finality . Now when the Italians established their identification between the poet and the orator they were able to offer to the poet handsome if questionable ...
... effect , made more sym- metrical , and given a greater appearance of finality . Now when the Italians established their identification between the poet and the orator they were able to offer to the poet handsome if questionable ...
Page 47
Mark Van Doren. for its elegance and the antithesis for its effect of completeness and finality even when nothing ... effects rather than forces , with novelties and ardors rather than with truth . Not always sympathetic in theory with ...
Mark Van Doren. for its elegance and the antithesis for its effect of completeness and finality even when nothing ... effects rather than forces , with novelties and ardors rather than with truth . Not always sympathetic in theory with ...
Page 73
... effects he should gain ; and he had a happy faculty for hitting at once upon rhythms which would secure those effects . His was not , like Doeg's , " a blundering kind of melody . " " There is nobody but knows , " declared John Oldmixon ...
... effects he should gain ; and he had a happy faculty for hitting at once upon rhythms which would secure those effects . His was not , like Doeg's , " a blundering kind of melody . " " There is nobody but knows , " declared John Oldmixon ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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