Dryden's Pegasus: Heroic Tone in Macflecknoe

Graduation Date

Spring 1968

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Document Form

Print

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Degree Granting Institution

Catholic University of America

Program Name

Humanities

Abstract

This study will attempt to establish a poetic correlative for Dryden's power of performance. Where Hemphill failed to illustrate a specific relationship of sound to sense, this study will extend his basic analysis of the metrical variations of the heroic lines in “MacFlecknoe,” in an attempt to establish a significant relationship of meaning, metre, and heroic tone.

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