John Dryden was England's most outstanding and controversial writer for the last four decades of the seventeenth century. He dominated the literary world as a satirist, a skilled and versatile dramatist, a pioneer of literary criticism, a writer of religious poetry, and an eloquent translator from the great classical poets. The present book discusses Dryden's career both chronologically and thematically, taking issue with his enemies' denigration of his integrity, and revealing him as a subtle, passionate and sceptical writer.

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University of Leeds, UK

Paul Hammond

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PAUL HAMMOND

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Book Title: John Dryden
Book Subtitle: A Literary Life
Authors: Paul Hammond
Series Title: Literary Lives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378629
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-45379-7Published: 25 June 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37862-9Published: 25 June 1991
Series ISSN: 2946-2037
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2045
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 184
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature

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