John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 44
... means , can appropriate the means of other arts and apply them obliquely to its mate- rial , why should not the eventual product be so much the fuller of beauty and meaning ? Actually the product as we now regard it is less beautiful ...
... means , can appropriate the means of other arts and apply them obliquely to its mate- rial , why should not the eventual product be so much the fuller of beauty and meaning ? Actually the product as we now regard it is less beautiful ...
Page 122
... means of conceits and antitheses , with the result that his effect is likely to be one of rectangularity . His epitaphs by no means lack that seventeenth - century largeness which the next few generations could not muster , and the ab ...
... means of conceits and antitheses , with the result that his effect is likely to be one of rectangularity . His epitaphs by no means lack that seventeenth - century largeness which the next few generations could not muster , and the ab ...
Page 202
... means the effects of trumpets , drums , flutes , and violins . From the sixth there ascend the softly rushing notes of the organ . The " Grand Chorus ” which closes the poem is cosmically pitched : As from the power of sacred lays The ...
... means the effects of trumpets , drums , flutes , and violins . From the sixth there ascend the softly rushing notes of the organ . The " Grand Chorus ” which closes the poem is cosmically pitched : As from the power of sacred lays The ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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