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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... leave to tell you , that as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts , so much more to express those thoughts with elocution . The composition of all poems is , or ought to be , of wit , and wit in the poet , or wit writing ...
... leave to tell you , that as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts , so much more to express those thoughts with elocution . The composition of all poems is , or ought to be , of wit , and wit in the poet , or wit writing ...
Sivu 475
... leave their watery stand , And mounting upward with erected flight , Gain on the skies , and soar above the sight ... leaves are lifted from the ground ; And floating feathers on the waters play . But when the winged thunder takes his ...
... leave their watery stand , And mounting upward with erected flight , Gain on the skies , and soar above the sight ... leaves are lifted from the ground ; And floating feathers on the waters play . But when the winged thunder takes his ...
Sivu 495
... leave the lofty plants — the lowly kind Are for the shepherd or the sheep designed . E'en humble broom and osiers ... leaves , and shattered are their arms , Yet heaven their various plants for use designs , For houses , cedars , and for ...
... leave the lofty plants — the lowly kind Are for the shepherd or the sheep designed . E'en humble broom and osiers ... leaves , and shattered are their arms , Yet heaven their various plants for use designs , For houses , cedars , and for ...
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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