Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0802089402 ISBN 13 : 9780802089403

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2004

Synopsis

At the time of his death in 1700, John Dryden was acknowledged as England's greatest writer, his reputation even rivaling that of Shakespeare. Certainly, whether considered as a poet, a dramatist, or as a critic, Dryden far outstripped his contemporaries in the sheer scope and variety of his literary production. The amazing versatility of his pen was matched only by the transformational energy that shapes individual works, from heroic dramas to great satires.

For Enchanted Ground, Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak have brought together many of the world's experts on Dryden, and their essays reflect a range of new, uniquely twenty-first-century views of him. The book is divided into two sections. The first explores Dryden's role as a public poet who had made himself the voice of the restored Stuart court. The second considers Dryden's relationship to the arts and particularly to the past and to Shakespeare.

Dryden was a poet for all ages. These essays provide fresh readings of Dryden and bring scholarship on him fully up-to-date.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jayne Lewis is a professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802089402
• ISBN 13: 9780802089403
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Éditeur: Lewis Jayne, Novak Maximillian E.
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