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 248
... poet for their model , adore him , and imitate him as they think , without knowing wherein he is defective , where he is boyish and trifling , wherein either his thoughts are improper to his subject , or his expressions unworthy of his ...
... poet for their model , adore him , and imitate him as they think , without knowing wherein he is defective , where he is boyish and trifling , wherein either his thoughts are improper to his subject , or his expressions unworthy of his ...
Sivu 250
... poet ; and that the Latin poet , made it his business to reach the conciseness of Demosthenes the Greek orator . Virgil therefore being so very sparing of his words , and leaving so much to be imagined by the reader , can never be ...
... poet ; and that the Latin poet , made it his business to reach the conciseness of Demosthenes the Greek orator . Virgil therefore being so very sparing of his words , and leaving so much to be imagined by the reader , can never be ...
Sivu 561
... poet , he seems to have some little bias towards the opinions of Wyclif , after John of Gaunt his patron ; somewhat of which appears in the tale of Piers Plowman . Yet I cannot blame him for inveighing so sharply against the vices of ...
... poet , he seems to have some little bias towards the opinions of Wyclif , after John of Gaunt his patron ; somewhat of which appears in the tale of Piers Plowman . Yet I cannot blame him for inveighing so sharply against the vices of ...
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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