 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...always laughed the same way," and he compared Dryden and Pope in the "Life of Pope" on the grounds that "Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners" (Lives, I, 39-40; in, 111). Johnson established the groundwork for many of these future critical distinctions... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 238 pages
...Homer. Although commonplace in its terminology, Johnson's dialogical conception of Dryden and Pope "Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners" (para. 3o8)":1 - speaks to the limits of the "poetical prudence" which Johnson saw as identifying Pope's... | |
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Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. 
