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... Dryden's condemnation of blank verse as the language of epic and dramatic poetry , " Paradise Lost " was published the very same year that Dryden's essay first appeared in print . Dryden himself found out his mistake ; he tired of the ...
... Dryden's condemnation of blank verse as the language of epic and dramatic poetry , " Paradise Lost " was published the very same year that Dryden's essay first appeared in print . Dryden himself found out his mistake ; he tired of the ...
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... Dryden were satirized in the second part of " Absalom and Achitophel , " published in 1682 , but the greater part of this was written by Nahum Tate , with Dryden's assistance . 66 Laici . ' It These four satires were followed by two ...
... Dryden were satirized in the second part of " Absalom and Achitophel , " published in 1682 , but the greater part of this was written by Nahum Tate , with Dryden's assistance . 66 Laici . ' It These four satires were followed by two ...
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... Dryden's Fables , 1698 , were free paraphrases of Chaucer and Boccaccio . To the ordinary reader of the eighteenth century Chaucer had become unintelligible , so that Dryden felt him- self justified in modernizing his poems , but the ...
... Dryden's Fables , 1698 , were free paraphrases of Chaucer and Boccaccio . To the ordinary reader of the eighteenth century Chaucer had become unintelligible , so that Dryden felt him- self justified in modernizing his poems , but the ...
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