The Poetical Works of DrydenHoughton Mifflin Company, 1950 - 1095 pages |
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Page xxiii
... English comedy of humor , descended from Ben Jonson . This deals primarily with the lower orders of society ; it presents men and women marked by one predominant trait , or humor . ( 2 ) Comedy of manners , represented in the old drama ...
... English comedy of humor , descended from Ben Jonson . This deals primarily with the lower orders of society ; it presents men and women marked by one predominant trait , or humor . ( 2 ) Comedy of manners , represented in the old drama ...
Page xxvi
... English dramatic prac- tices . Sir Robert Howard , Dryden's brother - in - law , in a preface published with Four New Plays , 1665 , had also entered the controversy , naturally on the English side . In his own Essay , a much longer and ...
... English dramatic prac- tices . Sir Robert Howard , Dryden's brother - in - law , in a preface published with Four New Plays , 1665 , had also entered the controversy , naturally on the English side . In his own Essay , a much longer and ...
Page lxi
... English.1 Of them Matthew Arnold exclaimed , “ Here at last we have the true English prose , a prose such as we would all gladly use if we only knew how . " 2 A musical society in London had for some years maintained the custom of ...
... English.1 Of them Matthew Arnold exclaimed , “ Here at last we have the true English prose , a prose such as we would all gladly use if we only knew how . " 2 A musical society in London had for some years maintained the custom of ...
Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH | xvii |
EARLY POEMS | liv |
UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD | 1 |
Copyright | |
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