John Dryden

by David Hopkins and David Hopkins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746310048
• ISBN13: 9780746310045
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"