John Dryden and the Poetry of Statement

Absalom and Achitophel achieved Aeneid allusion amplification Anne Killigrew Annus Mirabilis argument Augustan Augustan poetry becomes Chaucer Clarendon Press concept context Critical delight diction direct statement discursive statement Doren Dramatic Poesy Dryden's imagery Dryden's poetry Dryden's verse effect elaboration element elevation embellishment emotional emphasis English Essay of Dramatic essential expression figurative formal give heroic couplet Hind Ibid idea imaginative imitation John Dennis John Dryden kind language lines logical London MacFlecknoe Mark Van Doren meaning Medall Memory ment metaphor metre metrical nature ornament Oxford Panther passage pattern plain poem poet poetic theory poetry of statement Pope Preface prose reader reason Religio Laici Renaissance rhetorical rhyme rhythm rhythmic richness satire says sense serve seventeenth century significance Soul speaking stanza stress structure Sublime suggestiveness syntactical syntax T. S. Eliot things thought tion tone tophel University Press unobtrusive vitality vols writing Zimri