...Ars est celare artem. ..." (3) ' ' But that benefit which I consider most in it, " says Dryden, ' ' because I have not seldom found it, is that it bounds and circumscribes the fancy. . . . The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant." ' ' The great easiness of...

...characteristic dramatic works are his "heroic plays" in rhyme, the use of which he defended on the ground that "it bounds and circumscribes the fancy. For imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that it is like an high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it lest it outrun the judgment." Dryden's...

...Ars est celare artem. ..." (3) " But that benefit which I consider most in it, ' ' says Dryden, ' ' because I have not seldom found it, is that it bounds and circumscribes the fancy. . . . The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant." ' ' The great easiness of...

...Epistle Dedicatory of the Rival Ladies : " But that benefit which I consider most in it (ie rhyme), because I have not seldom found it, is, that it bounds...circumscribes the fancy. For imagination in a poet is a facultj' so wild and lawless, that like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest...

...meaning ; where he writes " fancy " we are justified in reading " imagination." Thus he says that " imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless,...that, like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs (rhyme) tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment " ; and he continues : " the fancy then gives leisure...

...seems to be redundant). | 1664 Dryden, Rival Ladies (Wks. ed. Scott/ Saintsb. Vol. II) Dedic. 138, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment (Söderl.). | 1667 Milton, PL 7, 546, And govern well thy appetite, least sin Surprise thee. | 1671...

...accordance with Dryden's injunction that imagination 'is a faculty so wild and lawless that like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.' Thus the great tragedies became the tragic victims of the new literary atmosphere of common sense....

...qualifications. Dryden, for example, wrote that imagination "is a faculty so wild and lawless that like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment."16 Boileau similarly writes that "the law governing art as such is not derived from and produced...

...the sudden smartness of the answer, and the sweetness of the rhyme, set off the beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because...it, is, that it bounds and circumscribes the fancy. (Epistle Dedicatory of The Rival Ladies.) As Dryden grew older and his criticism became more relaxed...

...discordant qualities." That is not the only possible view of such matters. Dryden, for example, said that "imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment." Dedication to The Rival Ladies ( 1664) . Does the conflict between imagination and judgment constitute...