Yet despite the effort at synthesis , and the familiar realms of order corroborating one another , Dryden's poem moves toward a curious ending , a resolution that to me seems apprehensive ; in the final verse paragraph , Dryden ...
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Language: en
Pages: 254
Pages: 254
In Dryden's Final Poetic Mode, Cedric D. Reverand II focuses on Dryden's characteristic concerns—love and war, power and kingship, the heroic code, the Christian ideal—tracing how Dryden at once assembles informing ideals and yet dissolves them.
Language: en
Pages: 1008
Pages: 1008
Dryden's last three years of published works begin with Alexander's Feast and end with Fables, his largest miscellany of poetical translations. Alexander's Feast, like the earlier Song for St. Cecilia's Day (Works, III), was commissioned by the Musical Society for performance at its annual tribute to sacred music. The Fables
Language: en
Pages: 123
Pages: 123
This 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
Language: en
Pages: 232
Pages: 232
Dryden at the end of his life was admired, perhaps even beloved, by many in England, and his greatest skill over his long career—his controlled detachment—uniquely positioned him to write of both history and politics in 1700. His narrative poetry was popular among Whigs and Tories, women and men, Ancients
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
In Dryden's writing, enthusiasm is a source of literary authority. It signals divinely inspired literary creativity. It is central to Dryden's theoretical defences of the relationship between literature and the passions. It is also crucial to his poetic practice in a variety of genres, from odes to religious poems to