Paul Hammond / David Hopkins (eds.)

John Dryden

Tercentenary Essays
Herausgeber: Hammond, Paul; Hopkins, David

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 429
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780198186441
• ISBN-10: 0198186444
• Artikelnr.: 22426928

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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