A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... DRYDEN AND LYRICAL POETRY I. Dryden : the Man and his Career . - The study of Restoration literature must begin with the poetry . This traditional order is here incontestably justified : form now comes into the fore- ground of the art ...
... DRYDEN AND LYRICAL POETRY I. Dryden : the Man and his Career . - The study of Restoration literature must begin with the poetry . This traditional order is here incontestably justified : form now comes into the fore- ground of the art ...
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... Dryden has brought the English classical line to its perfec- tion , and supplied Pope with his instrument . But his tastes as a metrist are not confined to the absolutely regular cadence of ... Dryden's 1702 ] 613 DRYDEN AND LYRICAL POETRY.
... Dryden has brought the English classical line to its perfec- tion , and supplied Pope with his instrument . But his tastes as a metrist are not confined to the absolutely regular cadence of ... Dryden's 1702 ] 613 DRYDEN AND LYRICAL POETRY.
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... Dryden , but he had inserted therein two very fine passages , the portraits of Doeg and Og ( Settle and Shadwell ) . Here the satire is no longer restrained by the desire for sober reserve which characterized the earlier poem , and a ...
... Dryden , but he had inserted therein two very fine passages , the portraits of Doeg and Og ( Settle and Shadwell ) . Here the satire is no longer restrained by the desire for sober reserve which characterized the earlier poem , and a ...
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ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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