John Dryden
This book, with its emphasis on Dryden as a poet - as opposed simply to topical commentator or controversialist - will prove an ideal introduction for students of his work.
VIII, 216 p. 22 cm
9780521313797, 0521313791
1014503914
Preface; Introduction; 1. Dryden's verse; 2. Disappointment and promise: Dryden's early career; 3. Poems of controversy: Mac Flecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel; 4. New directions: religion and translation in the 1680s; 5. 'Studying Nature's Laws': the Juvenal and Virgil; 6. An improving writer to his last': the Fables; Notes' Index.