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Bob Thompson Enchanted Rider 1961 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Bob Thompson An Allegory 1964 oil on linen Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Bob Thompson Descent from the Cross 1963 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Arnold Belkin In Resplendent Places 1968 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Arnold Belkin Moses de Leon 1969 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Gertrude Hermes Bees 1963 color linocut British Museum |
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Elaine Lustig Cohen Boris Pasternak - I Remember 1960 lithograph (dust jacket) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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Elaine Lustig Cohen The Hebrew Bible, Jewish Museum, New York 1963 offset-lithograph (exhibition poster) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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Jack Beal Still Life with Plant and Mirrors 1965 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Galina Bitt Kinetische Zeichnung 1965 screenprint Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Cristóbal Balenciaga Hat 1964 dyed cockerel feathers mounted on rayon taffeta Museo Cristóbal Balenciaga, Getaria, Spain |
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William Turnbull Leaves, Blue ca. 1967 lithograph Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia |
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Bridget Riley Late Morning 1967-68 acrylic on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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Ruth Gikow The Kitchen 1960 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo) L'Heure Matinale 1967 lithograph Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
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Pablo Picasso Dans l'Atelier 1965 aquatint and drypoint Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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David Plowden Delaware and Hudson Railroad Whitehall, New York 1965 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
DRYDEN, JOHN (1630-1700) – The establisher and master of the stopped heroic couplet with variations of triplets and Alexandrines; the last great writer of dramatic blank verse, after he had given up the couplet for that use; master also of any other metre – the stopped heroic quatrain, lyrics of various forms, etc. – that he chose to try. A deliberate student of prosody, on which he had intended to leave a treatise, but did not.
COWPER, WILLIAM (1731-1800) – One of the first to protest, definitely and by name, against the "mechanic art" of Pope's couplet. He himself returned to Dryden for that metre; but practised very largely in blank verse, and wrote lyrics with great sweetness, a fairly varied command of metre, and, in "Boadicea," "The Castaway," and some of his hymns, no small intensity of tone and cry. His chief shortcoming, a preference of elision to substitution.
– George Saintsbury, from Historical Manual of English Prosody (1910)