Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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Page 46
... kind of strength is certainly there . Yet the kind of inferiority referred to strikes us at once if we compare Dryden's verse with Pope's . Pope's greater strictness of versification is popularly supposed to mean greater monot- ony ...
... kind of strength is certainly there . Yet the kind of inferiority referred to strikes us at once if we compare Dryden's verse with Pope's . Pope's greater strictness of versification is popularly supposed to mean greater monot- ony ...
Page 96
... kind of bore - the hot - eyed , unescapable kind . When it succeeds it produces a rare intensity in our enjoyment — which is what a modern critic meant ( I fancy ) when he claimed that Donne made all other poetry sound less " serious ...
... kind of bore - the hot - eyed , unescapable kind . When it succeeds it produces a rare intensity in our enjoyment — which is what a modern critic meant ( I fancy ) when he claimed that Donne made all other poetry sound less " serious ...
Page 426
... kind of indig- nation , as witty as it was , ' ‚ ” 5 the parallel with his own attitude to Butler is unmistakable . Dryden aspired to write " manly satire " and felt that the style of Hudibras " turns earnest too much to jest , and ...
... kind of indig- nation , as witty as it was , ' ‚ ” 5 the parallel with his own attitude to Butler is unmistakable . Dryden aspired to write " manly satire " and felt that the style of Hudibras " turns earnest too much to jest , and ...
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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