| Reviews |
| - 'a 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
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| Description | | - Celebrating Dryden's tercentenary, this volume brings together work by eminent scholars of Dryden and his period.
- Addresses all the main areas of Dryden's work, from poetry to classical translation and drama.
- Examines his collaborations with Purcell and Congreve and his relations to other writers as well as to political and other contemporary issues.
| | 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. |
| Contents |
A note on contributors
Introduction: Is Dryden a classic?
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Paul Hammond
Mac Flecknoe, Heir of Augustus
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Howard Erskine-Hill
Dryden's Milton and the theatre of imagination
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Nicholas von Maltzahn
Dryden and the staging of popular politics
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Paulina Kewes
Constructing classicism: Dryden and Purcell
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Harold Love
Dryden and Congreve's collaboration in The Double Dealer
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Jennifer Brady
Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music: The poem and its readers
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Tom Mason and Adam Rounce
Dryden, Tonson, and the patrons of The Works of Virgil
(1697)
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John Barnard
'The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache'
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Robin Sowerby
'According to my Genius': Dryden's translation of 'The First Book of Homer's Ilias'
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James A. Winn
The final 'Memorial of my own Principles': Dryden's alter egos in his later career
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Cedric D. Reverand II
Dryden and the dissolution of things: The decay of structures in Dryden's later writing
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Steven N. Zwicker
Editing, authenticity, and translation: Re-presenting Dryden's poetry in 2000
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David Hopkins
Appendix: Some contemporary references to Dryden
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Paul Hammond
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Paul Hammond, Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds and
David Hopkins, Reader in English Poetry, University of Bristol
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