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OverviewThis volume is designed to celebrate and re-assess the work of John Dryden (1631-1700) in the tercentenary year of his death. It assembles specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars who address Dryden's political writing, drama, and translations, his literary collaborations, contemporary reputation, and posthumous reception. Much of Dryden's work was written in response to contemporary events and issues, and several of the essays in this volume discuss the personal and public circumstances in which his works were composed and received, exploring his responses to popular politics, and his relations with Congreve, Milton, Purcell, and Shadwell. But Dryden's intellectual and imaginative world was also shaped by the work of his literary predecessors, and so the collection charts his creative engagement with classical poetry, especially Homer and Virgil. Other essays attend to his poetic self-representation, his philosophical vision, and the problem of editing Dryden's poetry for a modern readership. The collection as a whole presents him as a writer not only for an age, but for all time. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Hammond (Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds) , David Hopkins (Reader in English Poetry, Reader in English Poetry, University of Bristol)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Clarendon Press Dimensions: Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.614kg ISBN: 9780198186441ISBN 10: 0198186444 Pages: 429 Publication Date: 03 August 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsA note on contributors Paul Hammond: Introduction: Is Dryden a classic? Howard Erskine-Hill: Mac Flecknoe, Heir of Augustus Nicholas von Maltzahn: Dryden's Milton and the theatre of imagination Paulina Kewes: Dryden and the staging of popular politics Harold Love: Constructing classicism: Dryden and Purcell Jennifer Brady: Dryden and Congreve's collaboration in The Double Dealer Tom Mason and Adam Rounce: Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music: The poem and its readers John Barnard: Dryden, Tonson, and the patrons of The Works of Virgil (1697) Robin Sowerby: 'The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache' James A. Winn: 'According to my Genius': Dryden's translation of 'The First Book of Homer's Ilias' Cedric D. Reverand II: The final 'Memorial of my own Principles': Dryden's alter egos in his later career Steven N. Zwicker: Dryden and the dissolution of things: The decay of structures in Dryden's later writing David Hopkins: Editing, authenticity, and translation: Re-presenting Dryden's poetry in 2000 Paul Hammond: Appendix: Some contemporary references to Dryden IndexReviewsa splendid celebration. Highly recommended. G.R.Wasserman, Choice, April 2001 as Hammond writes in an introductory essay to this commemorative volume, Dryden wrote not only for his age, but for all time. To appreciate the classic Dryden, then, modern readers need to be aware of the past and present worlds evoked in his works, and also of their reception both by his contemporary and later readers. The 12 thoughtfully commissioned essays presented here provide convincing proof of Hammond's claim. Choice, Vol. 38, No. 8, April 2001 Three hundred years after his death Dryden has been well served by those scholars devoted to his works. Contemporary Review Author InformationDavid Hopkins is also a contributor to France, ed., Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (Feb. 2000) Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |