This book is a concise introduction, drawing on the latest research, to the life and work of the most celebrated English poet of the late seventeenth century. It is unusual in stressing not only the poet's responses to events, personalities, and ideas of his day, but also the way in which his work engages (in a far more speculative and pluralistic way than is often supposed) with human issues and dilemmas of permanent concern:
| ISBN: | 9780746310045 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 2004 |
| Author: | David Hopkins |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Writers and Their Work |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: general Literary studies: poetry and poets |
This book is a concise introduction, drawing on the latest research, to the life and work of the most celebrated English poet of the late seventeenth century. It is unusual in stressing not only the poet's responses to events, personalities, and ideas of his day, but also the way in which his work engages (in a far more speculative and pluralistic way than is often supposed) with human issues and dilemmas of permanent concern: the relation of human to animal and inanimate nature; the forces, internal and external which serve to ennoble, enrich and confound human endeavour; the capacities and limits of human reason; the relations between the sexes.
John Dryden features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets
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John Dryden was written by David Hopkins and published by Liverpool University Press
John Dryden has 160 pages
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