The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden

Author: Steven N. Zwicker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-05-20

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780521531443

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John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden s tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities of aristocratic patronage as well as the emerging market for literary gossip, slander and polemic. Dryden s works are examined in the context of seventeenth-century politics, publishing and ideas of authorship. A valuable resource for students and scholars, the Companion includes a full chronology of Dryden s life and times and a detailed guide to further reading.

The Life Of John Dryden
The Life Of John Dryden

Author: Sir Walter Scott

Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 3849645142

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Scotts extensive biography of John Dryden is essentially the first of eighteen volumes that were published as "The Works of John Dryden". There are many biographies like this on the market, but there is hardly any that offers such an in-depth and healthy knowledge about the author.

John Dryden
John Dryden

Author: David Hopkins

Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0746310285

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This book is a concise introduction, drawing on the latest research, to the life and work of the most celebrated English poet of the late seventeenth century. It is unusual in stressing not only the poet's responses to the events, personalities, and ideas of his own day, but also the way in which his work engages (in a far more speculative and pluralistic way than is often supposed) with human issues and dilemmas of permanent concern: the relation of human to animal and inanimate nature; the forces, internal and external which serve to ennoble, enrich and confound human endeavour; the capacities and limits of human reason; the relations between the sexes. Dryden emerges from this study as, simultaneously, a 'man of his times' and a writer with important things to say to us all.

The Life of Alexander the Great
The Life of Alexander the Great

Author: Plutarch

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2004-04-13

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1588363473

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In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.” The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch’s Lives, is a riveting tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world.