Ernst, Winifred,
John Dryden and his readers : 1700 / Winifred Ernst. - 1 online resource - Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture .
"Dryden at the end of his life was admired, perhaps even beloved, by many in England, and his greatest skill over his long career-his controlled detachment-uniquely positioned him to write of both history and politics in 1700. His narrative poetry was popular among Whigs and Tories, women and men, Ancients and Moderns, and his imitations suggest historical connections between the War of the Roses, the Civil War, and the Revolution of 1688. All of these events combined easily in the minds of Dryden's contemporaries, and his fables, fraught with conflicted loyalties and family strife not unlike a nation divided, may have caught and compelled his readers in a way that was different from other miscellanies: Dryden may have articulated in beautiful verse the emotions of many in the midst of enormous historical change. Fables is a pivotal cultural text urging national unity through its embrace of competing voices"--
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700 --Criticism and interpretation.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700 --Appreciation--England.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
PR3424 / .E76 2020
821/.4
John Dryden and his readers : 1700 / Winifred Ernst. - 1 online resource - Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture .
"Dryden at the end of his life was admired, perhaps even beloved, by many in England, and his greatest skill over his long career-his controlled detachment-uniquely positioned him to write of both history and politics in 1700. His narrative poetry was popular among Whigs and Tories, women and men, Ancients and Moderns, and his imitations suggest historical connections between the War of the Roses, the Civil War, and the Revolution of 1688. All of these events combined easily in the minds of Dryden's contemporaries, and his fables, fraught with conflicted loyalties and family strife not unlike a nation divided, may have caught and compelled his readers in a way that was different from other miscellanies: Dryden may have articulated in beautiful verse the emotions of many in the midst of enormous historical change. Fables is a pivotal cultural text urging national unity through its embrace of competing voices"--
9780367859091 0367859092 9781000024982 1000024989 9781000025101 1000025101 9781000025040 1000025047
Dryden, John, 1631-1700 --Criticism and interpretation.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700 --Appreciation--England.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
PR3424 / .E76 2020
821/.4