Critical Essays on John Dryden (Critical Essays on British Literature) (Hardcover)

by James Anderson Winn (Editor)

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Critical Essays on British LiteratureJames Nagel, Series Editor, University of GeorgiaG. K. Halls three series of critical essays give comprehensive coverage of major authors worldwide and throughout history. The full range of literary traditions and schools is represented. Each new volume is carefully conceived and developed to fill a gap in the literary criticism available today.Volume editors are established authorities on the lives, works, and critical receptions of their subjects. They are uniquely qualified to ensure the spectrum of critical controversies, trends, and techniques inspired by their subjects in their own countries and abroad, in their own eras and today.Each volume features:an introduction which provides the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginningsilluminating controversies, evaluating approaches, and sorting out the schools of thoughtthe most influential reviews and the best of reprinted scholarly essaysa section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subjects contemporariesoriginal essays, new translations, and revisions commissioned especially for the seriespreviously unpublished materialssuch as interviews, lost letters, and manuscript fragments a bibliography of the subjects writings and interviews a name and subject indexStudents of English literature and the Restoration will value this superb collection of key criticism on John Dryden the most prolific and best known author of the Restoration.

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• Hardcover: 258 pages
• Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0783800509
• ISBN-13: 978-0783800509
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars some poems reflect Dryden's take on key public issues, June 15, 2006

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Winn has gathered together a group of essays about the Middle English writer and poet, Dryden. All the essays presuppose that at the very least, the reader is well familiar with Dryden's best known works.

One interesting analysis is offered by Harth, who describes how Dryden was acutely interested in the main public issues of his day. Harth shows how some of Dryden's poetry and writings and be usefully viewed in this light. And not just as abstruse declaimings. Some poems are overtly political, as Dryden was a public poet and sought to influence public opinion on various matters.