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A new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality. In his lifetime,John Drydengained fame at the cost first of gossip and scandal and then of suspicion and scorn. He wrote to order, currying favor with the Cr...
Author
John Dryden, Steven N. Zwicker, David Bywaters
Binding
Paperback
Pages
608
Publisher
Penguin Classics
ISBN #
0140439145
EAN Code
9780140439144
ISBN #
1
Author
David R. Bywaters, Richard A. Hamilton
Binding
Paperback
Pages
64
Publisher
Amer Society of Assn
ISBN #
0880340312
EAN Code
9780880340311
ISBN #
10
In 1681, when he wrote Absalom and Achitophel, John Dryden was poet laureate and historiographer royal at the court of his patron Charles II, and the acknowledged champion of a successful political cause. Only a few years later, Dryden's conversion to Roman Catholicism, followed by James II's deposi...
Author
David Bywaters
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
208
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN #
0520070615
EAN Code
9780520070615
ISBN #
2