Literary transmission and authority: Dryden and other writers

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�...

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Weitere Verfasser: Brady, Jennifer 1952- (HerausgeberIn), Miner, Earl Roy (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1993
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought 17
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Zusammenfassung: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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Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 163 pages)
ISBN:9780511627538
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511627538

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