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From Donne to Dryden: The Revolt against Metaphysical Poetry

From Donne to Dryden: The Revolt against Metaphysical Poetry

Sharp, Robert Lathrop

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1469644827
ISBN13: 9781469644820
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jul 1 2018
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The intense and concentrated revolution in poetic taste in seventeenth-century England is traced from Donne's idiom--subtle, complex, and shot through with unconventional moods--to the idiom of Dryden, which follows the taste for clarity, harmony, and propriety. More than poetry is involved in this revolt. The cultural and intellectual forces of the century made a change in taste inevitable by altering man's way of looking at himself and his world.

Originally published in 1940.

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