John Dryden, Nide 10Oxford University Press, 1987 - 967 sivua Dryden's poetry is straightforward, bold, and energetic. He was in the public eye for some forty years, holding positions at court for a long period of time. He was indisputably perceived as the leading writer of his day. He excelled in all the types of writing practiced at the time. He wrote more, and in more genres than anyone. He accumulated to himself (it is a odd distinction) a huge mass of attacks, ranging from the reasoned to the scabrous. Dryden explained his attitudes and intentions in a large number of prologues, epilogues, prefaces, defences, and vindications-thereby quite casually producing the first body of what we now call 'criticism' in English. And yet his life and character remain something of a mystery. |
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Sivu 148
... English poets against the Greek , ought to do it in this manner . 2. Either by yielding to him the greatest part of what he contends for , which consists in this , that the μvos [ plot ] , i.e. the design and conduct of it , is more ...
... English poets against the Greek , ought to do it in this manner . 2. Either by yielding to him the greatest part of what he contends for , which consists in this , that the μvos [ plot ] , i.e. the design and conduct of it , is more ...
Sivu 150
... English audience . 22. And if they proceeded upon a foundation of truer reason to please the Athenians than Shakespeare and Fletcher to please the English , it only shows that the Athenians were a more judicious people ; but the poet's ...
... English audience . 22. And if they proceeded upon a foundation of truer reason to please the Athenians than Shakespeare and Fletcher to please the English , it only shows that the Athenians were a more judicious people ; but the poet's ...
Sivu 151
... English have manifestly excelled them . 29. For the fable itself , ' tis in the English more adorned with episodes , and larger than in the Greek poets ; consequently more diverting , for , if the action be but one , and that plain ...
... English have manifestly excelled them . 29. For the fable itself , ' tis in the English more adorned with episodes , and larger than in the Greek poets ; consequently more diverting , for , if the action be but one , and that plain ...
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To John Hoddesdon on his Divine Epigrams I | 1 |
Annus Mirabilis | 23 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 177 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneas Aeneid Aesacus ancient Arcite Aristotle arms bear beauty behold Ben Jonson betwixt blessed blood breast Caeneus Chaucer Cinyras courser cried crime crown death Dryden e'en earth English eyes fair fame fate father fear fight fire flames force Georgics give goddess gods grace Greek ground hand haste head heart heaven honour Iliad John Dryden Jove kind king labour leave light live lord lover Lucretius maid Metamorphoses mighty mind mortal muse nature never night numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon Pindar Pirithous plain play pleased poem poet praise Priam prince pursue queen race rage rest rhyme Roman sacred Satire of Juvenal seas Sejanus sighed sight sire skies soul stood sweet sword tears thee Theseus thou thought translation Twas verse Virgil vows wife wind words youth