John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 3 August 2000
- ISBN 9780198186441
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages429 pages
- Size 224x146x27 mm
- Weight 614 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This 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.
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This 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.
a splendid celebration. Highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
A note on contributors
Introduction: Is Dryden a classic?
Mac Flecknoe, Heir of Augustus
Dryden's Milton and the theatre of imagination
Dryden and the staging of popular politics
Constructing classicism: Dryden and Purcell
Dryden and Congreve's collaboration in The Double Dealer
Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music: The poem and its readers
Dryden, Tonson, and the patrons of The Works of Virgil (1697)
'The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache'
'According to my Genius': Dryden's translation of 'The First Book of Homer's Ilias'
The final 'Memorial of my own Principles': Dryden's alter egos in his later career
Dryden and the dissolution of things: The decay of structures in Dryden's later writing
Editing, authenticity, and translation: Re-presenting Dryden's poetry in 2000
Appendix: Some contemporary references to Dryden
Index
