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 121
... sense naturally , and the due placing them adapts the rhyme to it . ' If you object that one verse may be made for the sake of another , though both the words and rhyme be apt , I answer it cannot possibly so fall out . For either there ...
... sense naturally , and the due placing them adapts the rhyme to it . ' If you object that one verse may be made for the sake of another , though both the words and rhyme be apt , I answer it cannot possibly so fall out . For either there ...
Sivu 249
... sense into as narrow a compass as possibly he could , for which reason he is so very figurative , that he requires , ( I may almost say ) a grammar apart to construe him . His verse is everywhere sounding the very thing in your ears ...
... sense into as narrow a compass as possibly he could , for which reason he is so very figurative , that he requires , ( I may almost say ) a grammar apart to construe him . His verse is everywhere sounding the very thing in your ears ...
Sivu 566
... sense and poetry as well as they ; when that poetry and sense is put into words which they under- stand . I will go further , and dare to add , that what beauties I lose in some places , I give to others which had them not originally ...
... sense and poetry as well as they ; when that poetry and sense is put into words which they under- stand . I will go further , and dare to add , that what beauties I lose in some places , I give to others which had them not originally ...
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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