John Dryden / edited by Keith Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Walker, Keith, 1936-

Series:

Oxford authors

Oxford authors.

Standardized Title:

Selections. 1986

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 967 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Summary:

Dryden's poetry is straightforward, bold, and energetic. He was in the public eye for some forty years, holding positions at court for a long period of time. He was indisputably perceived as the leading writer of his day. He excelled in all the types of writing practiced at the time. He wrote more, and in more genres than anyone. He accumulated to himself (it is a odd distinction) a huge mass of attacks, ranging from the reasoned to the scabrous. Dryden explained his attitudes and intentions in a large number of prologues, epilogues, prefaces, defences, and vindications-thereby quite casually producing the first body of what we now call 'criticism' in English. And yet his life and character remain something of a mystery.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [947]-948.

ISBN:

0192541927 :

0192814028

OCLC:

13063096