short biographies + critiques
52 poets
ordered chronologically by date of death
The Life of Pope - longest and best
Left out Chaucer, Shakespeare
Critique of Dryden
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heroic stanzas
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Wide Gallant
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Absalom and Achitophel
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Religio Laici
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The Medal
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Dryden as a Dramatist
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as a Poet
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Dryden as a Critic Of Dramatic Poesy “Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English Criticism”
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Dryden as a Satirist
Called Dryden’s work pedantic ostentation said he enriched English language
refined Eng, metre, more music than Virgil
Critique of Pope
precocious child → translated Ovid’s Metamorpheses
mock heroics pastorals
No eye for details can’t sing lacks musical quality