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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      19 January 2010
      29 July 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511627538
      9780521441117
      9780521032018
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627538
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.415kg, 176 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.268kg, 176 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, British History after 1450, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (17)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, British History after 1450, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (17)
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    Dryden's writings are studded with names, conspicuously those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. He defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters: poet, playwright, critic, prose stylist, England's foremost verse translator, the first literary historian to provide a conception of periods, and what would now be termed a comparatist. This 1993 book looks at Dryden's literary relationships with Ben Jonson and with French authors (notably Corneille), at issues raised by the work thought to be his greatest by Romantic and contemporary readers, Fables Ancient and Modern; and at Samuel Johnson's definition of Dryden, whose biography in Johnson's Lives was the author's favourite. The book has implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality, as well as for the reputation and context of Dryden himself.

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