Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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Page 375
... Dryden and Tradition1 It is perhaps easier to bury Dryden than to praise him : so much depends on the tradition we choose to place him in and on the standards by which we measure poetic success . If we follow Dr. Johnson and set Dryden ...
... Dryden and Tradition1 It is perhaps easier to bury Dryden than to praise him : so much depends on the tradition we choose to place him in and on the standards by which we measure poetic success . If we follow Dr. Johnson and set Dryden ...
Page 384
... Dryden did something else for his generation that Marvell and Milton , much less Cowley , could not do : he reaffirmed the public role of the poet , the Graeco - Roman conception of the poet as the voice of a society . It is true that ...
... Dryden did something else for his generation that Marvell and Milton , much less Cowley , could not do : he reaffirmed the public role of the poet , the Graeco - Roman conception of the poet as the voice of a society . It is true that ...
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... Dryden felt that he had been " notoriously abused " -which he allows as a partial exculpation for writing a lampoon . All that is definitely known is that during the year 1678 something acted as a match to the heaped- up straw of Dryden's ...
... Dryden felt that he had been " notoriously abused " -which he allows as a partial exculpation for writing a lampoon . All that is definitely known is that during the year 1678 something acted as a match to the heaped- up straw of Dryden's ...
Contents
H J C GRIERSON Metaphysical Poetry 3 | 22 |
F R LEAVIS The Line of Wit | 31 |
HELEN GARDNER The Metaphysical Poets | 50 |
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