The Just and the Lively: The Literary Criticism of John DrydenManchester University Press, 1999 - 342 sidor John Dryden is the father of English literary criticism. In The Just and the Lively, Michael Werth Gelber provides the first complete study of his criticism since Dryden's death almost three hundred years ago. Through a detailed reading of each of his essays, the book explains and illustrates the unity and the development of Dryden's thought. It demonstrates that, even as he based his first principles on his own poems and plays, Dryden tried to resolve what, since the early sixteenth century, had been a key problem in western literature: how to reconcile the demand of classical unity with the bewildering variety of Renaissance drama and romance. The figure who emerges from these pages is a man deeply responsive to the social, political, and intellectual currents of his age. An important influence on critics as diverse as Samuel Johnson and T. S. Eliot, Dryden retains the power to enlighten and delight the reader of today. |
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ONE The ends of criticism | 9 |
TWO From theory to practice 1664 | 22 |
THREE A French play 16651668 | 43 |
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The Just and the Lively: The Literary Criticism of John Dryden Michael Werth Gelber Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2002 |
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