 DEYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through life and...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Pàgina 382per Samuel Johnson - 1816Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pàgines
...is justly praised by Dr. Johnson in a celebrated passage: "Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first...the laws of propriety had neglected to teach them." By criticism, Dr. Johnson here means dogmatic criticism. Yet Dryden was himself no dogmatist. Quite... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pàgines
...price a shilling. — SWIFT, JONATHAN, 1733, The Rhapsody. Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first...the laws of propriety had neglected to teach them. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779-81, Dryden, Lives of the English Poets. If a new edition be wanted of Dryden's... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 666 pàgines
...concave mirror the Sidereal hemisphere. (From DRYDEN AS CRITIC DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first...the rest, those who knew the laws of propriety had neglecte/i to teach them. Two Arts of English Poetry were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 894 pàgines
...introduce their ideas into England. Hence Doctor Johnson terms him "the father of English criticism, the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition." Yet, though the founder of English dogmatic criticism, DryDRYDEN — DSCHAKOWA den was himself no dogmatist... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pàgines
...of heroic poems, only because it is not the first. DRYDEN Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine iipon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 pàgines
...with reverence as a critic and a poet. \ DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of Eng\ lish criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine...deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew the laws 30 of propriety had neglected to teach them. Two ' Arts of English Poetry ' were written in the days... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pàgines
...SAM. JOHNSON. DRYDEN AS CRITIC (From The Lives of the Pnets.) DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first...deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew the laws of poetry had neglected to teach them. Two Arts of English Poetry were written in the days of Elizabeth... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pàgines
...kommen, es sei denn, man gehöre zu den Kritikastern, who form their judgements upon narrow principles. Of our former poets the greatest dramatist wrote without...by a genius that rarely misled and rarely deserted Mm.53) Ihm stand es zu, die Regeln zu durchbrechen, gerade wie es sich für einen minutiösen Kritiker... | |
 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - 1904 - 160 pàgines
...criticism, his translations, his plays, his lyrics. Dryden he considered the father of English criticism, "the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition." He found the dissertations gay and vigorous; the general criticisms trustworthy; the occasional ones... | |
 | 1918 - 838 pàgines
...to introduce their ideas into England. Hence Dr. Johnson terms him "the father of English criticism, the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition." Yet, though the founder of English dogmatic criticism, Dryden was himself no dogmatist ; continually... | |
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