The Works of John Dryden: Life
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Edinburgh, Paterson
Published: 1882
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13:
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The Major Works
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 9780192840776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Dryden's poetry and prose - all the major poems in full, literary criticism, and translations - to give theessence of his work and thinking.John Dryden (1631-1700) was the leading writer of his day and a major cultural spokesman following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. His work includes political poems, satire, religious apologias, translations, critical essays and plays. This anthology includes all the major poems such asMacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel as well as Dryden's classical translations; his versions of Homer, Horace, and Ovid are reproduced in full. There are also substantial selections from Dryden's Virgil, Juvenal, and other classical writers. Fables, Ancient and Modern, taken from Chaucer, Ovid,Boccaccio, and Homer, his last and possibly greatest work, also appears in full.
The Faith of John Dryden
Author: George Douglas Atkins
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813150857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Dryden's celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism is revealed in this provocative study as the culmination of a lifelong search that began with his youth in an actively Puritan family. Atkin's familiarity with the religious thought of the times allows him to range widely among Dryden's contemporaries and predecessors and to bring a fresh perspective to those key poems in Dryden's religious development: Religio Laici and The Hind and the Panther. Through a sensitive reappraisal of all Dryden's texts -- including those less widely known -- Atkins shows that Dryden had a lifelong antipathy for all "priests" of whatever sect, whether pagan or Christian; by concentrating on the theme of Dryden's opposition to the clergy and his efforts toward articulating a faith for the layman, Atkins provides an important new way of tracing and evaluating the changes in Dryden's religious position and, with this perspective, offers a new interpretation of Dryden's conversion.
The Works of John Dryden, Volume VII
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 1008
ISBN-13: 0520021231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the final volume in The Works of John Dryden and the last volume of poetry written by Dryden before he died in 1700.
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
Author: Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-05-20
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521531443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn 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.
John Dryden
Author: David Hopkins
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 0746310285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
All For Love
Author: Dryden
Publisher: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 181
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Correspondence of John Dryden
Author: Stephen Bernard
Publisher:
Published: 2022-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781526136367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis definitive edition of the correspondence of John Dryden takes a new approach to introducing and contextualising letters, creating a coherent narrative where few have found one. It is a sustained engagement with one of the great writers in English literary history.
Marriage A-La-Mode
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-06-13
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1408144263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, would have been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession, Francophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successful tragicomedy. In the tragic plot, written in verse, young Leonidas has to struggle to assert his place as the rightful heir to the throne of Sicily and to the hand of the usurper's daughter. In the comic plot, written in prose, two fashionable couples (much more at home in London drawing-rooms than at the Sicilian court) play at switching partners in the 'modern' style. The introduction of this edition argues that Dryden's own ambivalence about King Charles and his entourage, on whom he came to rely more on more for patronage, manifests itself in both plots; most of all perhaps in the excessively Francophile Melantha, whose affectation cannot quite hide her endearing joie-de-vivre.
