John Dryden (1631-1700): His Politics, His Plays, and His Poets
Jan 2004 · University of Delaware Press
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This volume, a celebration of the tercentenary of Dryden's death, examines the impact of his work through a range of essays by leading Dryden scholars. These essays pay special attention to two aspects of his work that have received less attention than they deserve: the politics of his plays, and Dryden's position as a poet poised between ancient and modern influences. The essays therefore fall into two groups. Part I, The Court, the Town, and the Playhouse, features essays that reconsider Dryden's interaction with the London of his day, and how that interaction shapes his work - particularly his drama. Part II, Dryden and the Poets, examines Dryden's place in the literary tradition, setting him alongside those poets who influenced him, those he influenced, and contemporary poetic rivals. Together, the essays form a new appreciation of the extraordinary ambition and impact of this most dynamic dramatist and poet.
This volume, a celebration of the tercentenary of Dryden's death, examines the impact of his work through a range of essays by leading Dryden scholars. These essays pay special attention to two aspects of his work that have received less attention than they deserve: the politics of his plays, and...
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Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University, USA. He is the Delegate for Literature and Language, Oxford University Press, New York, and a Founding General Editor of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. He is the General Editor of the Blackwell Critical Biographies and the Unwin Critical Library. Rawson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Past President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He has lectured widely in Europe, the Americas, Australasia and the Far East, and has written numerous articles and reviews both in specialist journals and in the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review and London Review of Books.
Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University, USA. He is the Delegate for Literature and Language, Oxford University Press, New York, and a Founding General Editor of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. He is the General Editor of the Blackwell Critical Biographi...
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