John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays by Paul Hammond (English) Hardcover Book

Description: John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays by Paul Hammond, David Hopkins 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 Drydens political writing, drama, and translations, his literary collaborations, contemporary reputation, and posthumous reception. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Drydens political writing, drama, and translations, his literary collaborations, contemporary reputation, and posthumous reception. Much of Drydens work was written in response to contemporary events and issues, and several of the essays in thisvolume 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, andShadwell. But Drydens 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 Drydens poetry for a modern readership. The collection as a whole presents him as a writer not only for an age, but for all time. Author Biography David Hopkins is also a contributor to France, ed., Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (Feb. 2000) Table of Contents A note on contributorsPaul Hammond: Introduction: Is Dryden a classic?Howard Erskine-Hill: Mac Flecknoe, Heir of AugustusNicholas von Maltzahn: Drydens Milton and the theatre of imaginationPaulina Kewes: Dryden and the staging of popular politicsHarold Love: Constructing classicism: Dryden and PurcellJennifer Brady: Dryden and Congreves collaboration in The Double DealerTom Mason and Adam Rounce: Alexanders Feast, or the Power of Music: The poem and its readersJohn Barnard: Dryden, Tonson, and the patrons of The Works of Virgil (1697)Robin Sowerby: The Last Parting of Hector and AndromacheJames A. Winn: According to my Genius: Drydens translation of The First Book of Homers IliasCedric D. Reverand II: The final Memorial of my own Principles: Drydens alter egos in his later careerSteven N. Zwicker: Dryden and the dissolution of things: The decay of structures in Drydens later writingDavid Hopkins: Editing, authenticity, and translation: Re-presenting Drydens poetry in 2000Paul Hammond: Appendix: Some contemporary references to DrydenIndex Review `a splendid celebration. Highly recommended.G.R.Wasserman, Choice, April 2001`as Hammond writes in an introductory essay to this commemorative volume, Dryden wrote not only for his age, but for all time. To appreciate the classic Dryden, then, modern readers need to be aware of the past and present worlds evoked in his works, and also of their reception both by his contemporary and later readers. The 12 thoughtfully commissioned essays presented here provide convincing proof of Hammonds claim.Choice, Vol. 38, No. 8, April 2001`Three hundred years after his death Dryden has been well served by those scholars devoted to his works.Contemporary Review Long Description 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 Drydens political writing, drama, and translations, his literary collaborations, contemporary reputation, and posthumous reception. Much of Drydens work was written in response to contemporary events and issues, and several of the essays in thisvolume 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 Drydens intellectual and imaginative world was also shaped by the work of his literarypredecessors, 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 Drydens poetry for a modern readership. The collection as a whole presents him as a writer not only for an age, but for all time. Review Text `a splendid celebration. Highly recommended.G.R.Wasserman, Choice, April 2001`as Hammond writes in an introductory essay to this commemorative volume, Dryden wrote not only for his age, but for all time. To appreciate the classic Dryden, then, modern readers need to be aware of the past and present worlds evoked in his works, and also of their reception both by his contemporary and later readers. The 12 thoughtfully commissioned essays presented here provide convincing proof of Hammonds claim.Choice, Vol. 38, No. 8, April 2001`Three hundred years after his death Dryden has been well served by those scholars devoted to his works.Contemporary Review Review Quote Three hundred years after his death Dryden has been well served by those scholars devoted to his works.Contemporary Review Feature Celebrating Drydens tercentenary, this volume brings together work by eminent scholars of Dryden and his period.Addresses all the main areas of Drydens work, from poetry to classical translation and drama.Examines his collaborations with Purcell and Congreve and his relations to other writers as well as to political and other contemporary issues. Details ISBN0198186444 Language English ISBN-10 0198186444 ISBN-13 9780198186441 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 821.4 Year 2000 Imprint Clarendon Press Subtitle Tercentenary Essays Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Paul Hammond Illustrations index Birth 1953 Author David Hopkins Short Title JOHN DRYDEN UK Release Date 2000-08-03 AU Release Date 2000-08-03 NZ Release Date 2000-08-03 Pages 429 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2000-08-03 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97825453;

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