Rochester 10/1/10 First class

Published: Oct. 4, 2010, 5:34 p.m.

First class on Rochester: Range of his poetry, his songs, his satire against reason and mankind; reflections on libertinage and philosophy; reflections on the skills that make a poem great: line, transition; architectonic.\xa0 Dryden great at all three; Rochester extremely good at the first two.