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... for photocopies of pages of the Geneva and the Bishops Bibles. A POSSIBLE SOURCE FOR DRYDEN S BEE AND DRONE IMAGE IN THE PROLOGUE TO AM PH ITRYO N Writing in 1690 after the deposition of King Jam es II and his own removal from the poet laureateship, Jo h n Dryden claims in the Prologue to Amphitryon, spoken...

... AND BISHOP BOLOCH: NOMENCLATURE IN RESTORATION PARALLEL POEMS The characters that populate poems written in imitation of Absalom and Achitophel (1681) received their names, as in Dryden s original, according to various principles, several of which might be operative in a single poem .1Often, the poets tried...

... Kingsley, than in Dryden s Annus Mirabilis (1666) or in the Royalist argument that plague and fire simply provided the means for a newly built city and a modernized society all for a stronger London. Kingsley s next chapter turns specifically to Dryden as the satirist of the prophetic voice...

... not specifically mention is that sweet­ ness is natural and not artificial. It is used in this meaning of a naturally pleasing appeal to the senses by Collins. Dryden, in An Essay ofDramatick Poesie (1668), defines sweetness as a phe­ nomenon that is exclusively characteristic of English [lyric] verse. 4...

... such as Benjonson (who published his plays as Works and presided over the literary imagi­ 84 English Language Notes nations of the Sons of Ben John Dryden (who published Of Dramatic Poesy in 1668 and planned a second volume on epic and lyric poetry), Michael Drayton (who surveyed English po­ etry in To Henry...

... (like Dryden, Pope, the Warton brothers). Apart from frequent references to Pope, Collins, especially in his revised 1744 edition of An Epistle: Addrest to Sir Thomas Hanmer on his Edition of Shakespear s Works (Epistle to Hanmer), articulates his fascination with Italian writers (of tragedy and epic...

... to life. In a play w ith such otherw orldly overtones as The Witch o f Edmonton, a reference to the popular, yet controversial unguent does not seem out o f place. During the Restoration, several direct references to the weapon-salve controversy crop up; however, it is most notable in John Dryden's...

...: The Invention of the H uman (New York: Pen­ guin, 1998) 500-01. 2 1 am indebted to Elizabeth A. Walsh of the Folger Shakespeare Library for photocopies of pages of the Geneva and the Bishops Bibles. A POSSIBLE SOURCE FOR DRYDEN S BEE AND DRONE IMAGE IN THE PROLOGUE TO AM PH ITRYO N Writing in 1690 after...

... that there is a fairly frequent admixture of hemistiches; but this is hardly unusual for Restoration theatrical blank verse once we get away from such metrical perfectionists as Dryden. Here is an example given, as are the other passages quoted, in my own relineation: Oh my Philander, how hard it is to bring my Soul...

..., in which his Noble Vigour lay is a w arning to the political authorities of what will happen /satyrs are controlled: you will lose your Plea­ sure, to secure your Fear. But, w hether as assessment of the current situation or prediction of the future, in this passage Dryden draws on Vergil...

.... 468. he. $69.50. 0-87413-816-7. Cook, Vivian. The English Writing System. London: A rnold Publishing, 2004. pb. $24.95. 0-340-80864-0. Daly, Nicholas. Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Pp. viii + 161. he. $60.00. 0-521-83392-2. Dryden, Edgar A. Monumental...

..., Jayne and Maximillian E. Novak, eds. Enchanted Ground: Reimaginingjohn Dryden. Toronto: University o f Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 344. he. $75.00. 0-802-08940-2. McGilvray, James. The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. ix + 335. he. $75.00. 0-521-78013-6...

... typical and influential models are Milton s Lycidas, Dryden s To the Memory of Mr. Oldham , Shelley s Adonais, Tennyson s In Memoriam, and A rnold s Thyrsis. In all of these elegies and even in Gray s death is on a scale that can be imagined, represented, and accepted. But death in World War...

... needless scorn, also set songs by Durfey and Dryden,22whose works are also included in the m anuscript. Because o f this textual com m unity s theatrical and musical associations, and the identification of Behn and Durfey in the collection, D urfey s song to Astrea appears to be addressed to Behn by her...

... Bibliographies. Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 131. pb. $9.95. 1-889818-35-6. W itham , Barry B. The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study. Cam bridge: Cam­ bridge UP, 2003. Pp. xiii + 190. he. $60.00. 0-521-82259-9. Yu, C hristopher. Nothing to Admire: The Politics of Poetic Satire from Dryden...

... or fancy. Milton, Dryden and Pope have alone sufficient good sense to please him . Virgil he overrates, I think, an d Cicero too. Style and again style is the topic o f his praise.12 T hese views o f M ackintosh, actin g in c o n ju n c tio n with Coleridge s dislike, may represent one elem ent in W...

..., a warning bell never silenced altogether, but Erasmus saw nothing wrong w ith experim enting in the voices of others along the way toward one's own distinctive but still polyglot idiom . Likewise Dryden w ith his Shakespeare, or Ruskin's mixed exhortations to artistic and moral im itation...

.... $55.00. 0- 94 English Language Notes 8047-4075-5. Miller, Nicholas Andrew. Moderism, Ireland, and the Erotics o f Memory. Cam­ bridge: Cam bridge UP, 2002. Pp. xii + 226. he. $55.00. 0-521-81583-5. M orton, Richard. John Dryden s Aeneas: A Hero in Enlightment Mode, English Literary Studies Monograph...

... education m ight rather be friendship than love; analogy than identification; simile than metaphor. If we love Milton, we m ight still want to register our friendships with Dryden, or vice versa. As a default institutional protocol, friendship, as distinct from passionate love, allows both for a com m unity...

..., 1995), 126. 16Q. V., Cats: Their Price, Notes and Queries VI (1906), 367 DOCTOR BALACK AND BISHOP BOLOCH: NOMENCLATURE IN RESTORATION PARALLEL POEMS The characters that populate poems written in imitation of Absalom and Achitophel (1681) received their names, as in Dryden s original, according...