The Faith of John Dryden [electronic resource] : Change and Continuity / G. Douglas Atkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas), 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dryden, John, 1631-1700--Religion.

Dryden, John.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Dryden's celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism is revealed in this provocative study as the culmination of a lifelong search that began with his youth in an actively Puritan family. Atkin's familiarity with the religious thought of the times allows him to range widely among Dryden's contemporaries and predecessors and to bring a fresh perspective to those key poems in Dryden's religious development: Religio Laici and The Hind and the Panther. Through a sensitive reappraisal of all Dryden's texts -- including those less widely known -- Atkins shows that Dryden had a lifelong antipat

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; A Note on Texts; 1. Approaching Dryden's Religious Thought; 2. The Early Religious Opinions; 3. Dryden's Religious Views 1677-1684; 4. The Unresolved Conflict of Dryden's Layman's Faith; 5. Change and Continuity in Dryden's Conversion; 6. Dryden as Catholic Layman; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6184-3

OCLC:

568194095