John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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... language ; and always it was language that in- terested Dryden . Since Milton's days at Cambridge there had come definite innovations . Ramus and Bacon and Descartes were replacing Aristotle , mathematics and experimental science were ...
... language ; and always it was language that in- terested Dryden . Since Milton's days at Cambridge there had come definite innovations . Ramus and Bacon and Descartes were replacing Aristotle , mathematics and experimental science were ...
Page 101
... language , the inconvenience of rhyme . " By his own con- fession , he kept the manuscript of the Earl of ... Language and Poetry ) would undertake to translate Virgil in blank Verse , we might hope to read him with as great pleasure in ...
... language , the inconvenience of rhyme . " By his own con- fession , he kept the manuscript of the Earl of ... Language and Poetry ) would undertake to translate Virgil in blank Verse , we might hope to read him with as great pleasure in ...
Page 197
... language of Horace , says Dryden , " there is nothing so delicately turned in all the Ro- man language . There appears in every part of his diction a kind of noble and bold purity . . . . There is a secret happi- ness which attends his ...
... language of Horace , says Dryden , " there is nothing so delicately turned in all the Ro- man language . There appears in every part of his diction a kind of noble and bold purity . . . . There is a secret happi- ness which attends his ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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