Dryden's Final Poetic Mode: The FablesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1988 - 239 sivua Two months before he died, Dryden published a collection of verse translations and original poetry, Fables Ancient and Modern, the work for which he was most admired throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cedric Reverand argues that Fables, which has for the most part escaped modern scrutiny, embodies a purposeful, subversive strategy, and constitutes a new poetic mode that emerged when the laureate, public spokesman for king and country, lost his official post and became an outcast, a minority voice. In Dryden's Final Poetic Mode, Reverand focuses on Dryden's characteristic concerns--love and war, power and kingship, the heroic code, the Christian ideal--tracing how Dryden assembles informing ideals and yet dissolves them as well. By examining Dryden's treatment of familiar issues, Reverand demonstrates that this final poetic mode is not discontinuous with the earlier poetry bill is a further development, a reevaluation of the principles that sustained the poet throughout his career. Fables expresses Dryden's personal experience dealing with a changed and changing world. With the values he cherished crumbling, he is trapped into trying to reconcile the irreconcilable. His book reveals the fragility of various systems of value and the futility of discovering abiding ideals in a universe of perpetual flux, but it also reveals a poet who actively pursues meaning rather than surrendering to despair. It is this attempt to accommodate to a changing, subversive world that Reverand asserts is the impulse behind Fables and the central issue of Dryden's life in the1690s. Dryden's Final Poetic Mode will interest students and scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature. |
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... perhaps even annoying . However , it is my contention that few readers , and even only a handful of Dryden scholars , are familiar with Fables ; the only complete version currently in print is in volume four of the 1958 Kinsley edition ...
... perhaps , and perhaps an ideal Dryden . When Pythagoras at last begins to speak , this model of eloquence sounds at first more like a health - food fanatic than a philosopher pene- trating the mysteries of the universe . He starts not ...
... perhaps sound close to this deconstructionist position . To some , I may seem to be mov- ing dangerously close to the brink , although I suspect ( and hope ) I am not moving at all far enough for the satisfaction of those who regard ...
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