John Dryden

Tercentenary Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-818644-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 429 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 737 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hammond, Paul

Hopkins, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

David Hopkins is also a contributor to France, ed., Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (Feb. 2000)