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... Dryden's verse with Pope's . Pope's greater strictness of versification is popularly supposed to mean greater monotony ; actually , manifesting as it does a much greater fineness and profundity of organization , a much greater intensity ...
... Dryden's verse with Pope's . Pope's greater strictness of versification is popularly supposed to mean greater monotony ; actually , manifesting as it does a much greater fineness and profundity of organization , a much greater intensity ...
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... Dryden and Milton . Dryden is the voice of his age and may be said to have , in that sense , responsibility . And even without reference forward to the eighteenth century the coupling of his name with Milton's can be readily justified ...
... Dryden and Milton . Dryden is the voice of his age and may be said to have , in that sense , responsibility . And even without reference forward to the eighteenth century the coupling of his name with Milton's can be readily justified ...
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... Dryden , fortunate in the timeliness of Mr. Mark Van Doren's book , was enlisted in the argument against the nineteenth century . It was an opportunity ; the cause was admirable and Homage to John Dryden admirably served it ( though Mr ...
... Dryden , fortunate in the timeliness of Mr. Mark Van Doren's book , was enlisted in the argument against the nineteenth century . It was an opportunity ; the cause was admirable and Homage to John Dryden admirably served it ( though Mr ...
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