| Julia Ashtiany - 1990 - 552 páginas
...is illuminating. In a famous passage in his Discourse Concerning Satire, Dryden complains that Donne "perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, where he should engage their hearts and entertain them with the softness of love". Similarly, al-madhhab... | |
| Alan Carroll Purves - 1991 - 186 páginas
...literary obscurity that I know is that of John Dryden about the poems of John Donne, who, he claimed, "perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations...should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness of love" (Dryden, 1693/1962: 76). Dryden accuses Donne of a breach of decorum with respect... | |
| Wolfgang Iser - 1993 - 254 páginas
...Garden City 1956), pp. 36-179. 23. See John Dryden's judgment of Donne: "He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where...should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness of love." In Essays II, ed. by WP Ker (New York 1961), p. 19. 24. See Geoffrey Tillotson,... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 páginas
...make it better.40 Donne was criticized by Dryden for the fact that he 'affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where...reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with the nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the... | |
| Roger D. Sell, Peter Verdonk - 1994 - 282 páginas
...explains how, seven years before his death, Dryden could write of Donne: He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where...hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love (Gardner 1957: 15). How wonderful this is! — from the man whose wife wished that she were a book... | |
| James E. Gill - 1995 - 468 páginas
...Satire as defined by Dryden might have intimidated a woman writer. He criticizes Donne for "perplexing the Minds of the Fair Sex with nice speculations of Philosophy, when he should engage the Hearts, and entertain them with the softness of Love" (7). Manley, as will become clear, was not... | |
| A. J. Smith - 2010 - 520 páginas
...though not the best poet, of our nation.' He says afterwards, that 'he affects the metaphysics, not only in his Satires, but in his amorous verses, where...they would yet be wanting in dignity of expression. The reader has now an opportunity of comparing the originals and translations in Pope's works, and... | |
| Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 páginas
...of the first to use the term disparagingly, when writing of Donne: 'He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where...the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy . . .' (1693) Thereafter, until the twentieth century, the style of poetry known as metaphysical seemed... | |
| Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 páginas
...you both with the same admiration, but not with the same delight. He affects the metaphysicks, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only shou'd reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he... | |
| Ronald Corthell - 1997 - 244 páginas
...by Donne's writing. Rather, Dryden's famous criticism of Donne — "he affects the metaphysics . . . and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice...hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love" — captures a deep division within Donne's indifferent subject of love.4-1 "Confined Love," an inverted... | |
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