 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...has a better plea for his Fairy 10 Queen, had his action been finished, or had been one. And Milton, if the Devil had not been his hero, instead of Adam...world with his lady errant ; and if there had not been 15 more machining persons than human in his poem. After these, the rest of our English poets shall... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...point this out, complaining in 1697 that Milton's claim to be a true heroic poet would be stronger 'if the Devil had not been his hero instead of Adam; if the giant had not foiled the knight'. For Dryden this was clearly a flaw in the poem: a century later it became a merit. The Romantic Satan,... | |
 | Thorslev - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 240 pages
...Milton's poem would have been a great epic "if the Devil had not been his hero, instead of Adam," and "if the giant had not foiled the knight, and driven...to wander through the world with his lady errant" (Dryden had just been discussing The Faerie Queene). Dryden, however, was of course no Romantic, and... | |
 | Marcie Frank - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 194 pages
...Fairie Queen, [in the list of great epics] had his action been finished, or had been one. And Milton, if the devil had not been his hero, instead of Adam;...if there had not been more machining persons than humans in his poem. (Watson, Of Dramatic Poesy, n: 233) Dryden here distorts Milton with the aim of... | |
 | Marcie Frank - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 194 pages
...Fairie Queen, [in the list of great epics] had his action been finished, or had been one. And Milton, if the devil had not been his hero, instead of Adam;...if there had not been more machining persons than humans in his poem. (Watson, Of Dramatic Poesy, n: 233) Dryden here distorts Milton with the aim of... | |
 | Francis Blessington - Epic poetry, English - 2004 - 161 pages
...are Homer, Virgil, and Tasso. Milton would have been included, if the dragon had not got the girl: "if the Devil had not been his hero, instead of Adam;...giant had not foiled the knight, and driven him out of 13 his stronghold, to wander through the world with his lady errant; and if there had not been more... | |
 | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 520 pages
...reasons applying to Italian and French poets and to Spenser as well. Milton, then, would have measured up if the Devil had not been his hero, instead of Adam; if the giant [Satan] had not foiled the knight, and driven him out of his stronghold, to wander with his lady errant;... | |
 | Margaret Kean - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 196 pages
...Heroe, instead of Adam; if the Gyant had not foil'd the Knight, and driven him out of his strong hold, to wander through the World with his Lady Errant:...if there had not been more Machining Persons' than Humane, in his Poem. After these, the rest of our English Poets shall not be mention'd. I have that... | |
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Queen, had his action been finished, or had been one. And Milton, if the Devil had not been his hero, instead of Adam ; if the giant had not foiled the knight, and driven him out of his stronghold, to wander through the world with his lady errant; and... 
