John DrydenDryden'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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... verse , or the measure of verse kept exactly without rhyme . These numbers therefore are fittest for a play , the others for a paper of verses , or a poem - blank verse being as much below them as rhyme is improper for the drama . And ...
... verse , or the measure of verse kept exactly without rhyme . These numbers therefore are fittest for a play , the others for a paper of verses , or a poem - blank verse being as much below them as rhyme is improper for the drama . And ...
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... verse to have bounded his . ' In our own language we see Ben Jonson confining himself to what ought to be said , even in the liberty of blank verse . And yet Corneille , the most judicious of the French poets , is still varying the ...
... verse to have bounded his . ' In our own language we see Ben Jonson confining himself to what ought to be said , even in the liberty of blank verse . And yet Corneille , the most judicious of the French poets , is still varying the ...
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... verse which is nearest prose , it makes little for you , blank verse being properly but measured prose . O ' Now measure alone , in any modern language , does not constitute verse . Those of the ancients in Greek and Latin consisted in ...
... verse which is nearest prose , it makes little for you , blank verse being properly but measured prose . O ' Now measure alone , in any modern language , does not constitute verse . Those of the ancients in Greek and Latin consisted in ...
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To John Hoddesdon on his Divine Epigrams I | 1 |
Astraea Redux | 9 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 177 |
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