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Tag: John Dryden

259. (John Dryden)

It seems necessary that, if poetry is not to effect synthesis by way of the elaborate similes and coaxed metaphors … More

John Dryden, Poetry, Virgil

258. (John Dryden)

For John Dryden, the world tends towards fusion and confusion and it is for the poet to establish distinctions and … More

Alexander Pope, John Dryden, T.S. Eliot

178. (John Dryden)

Since both are masters of the heroic couplet, both scathing satirists, how, it might be asked, does Dryden achieve effects … More

Alexander Pope, Homer, John Dryden, Poetry, Sublime, Virgil

22. (John Dryden)

I was mostly in my right mind when I blustered, a few years ago, that John Dryden was among the … More

Donald Davie, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Dryden, John Jones, John Keats, Matthew Arnold, Religio Laici, T.S. Eliot, Virgil, Wallace Stevens, Wordsworth
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