Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Memoirs of John Dryden
Author: Walter ScottMemoirs of John Dryden
Author: ScottThe Works of John Dryden: Life
Author: John DrydenPublisher: Edinburgh, Paterson
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Life of Alexander the Great
Author: PlutarchPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588363473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.” The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch’s Lives, is a riveting tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world.
Critical Essays on John Dryden
Author: James Anderson WinnPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day. Each volume includes: -- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out the schools of thought -- The most influential reviews and the best reprinted scholarly essays -- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries -- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series -- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments -- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews -- A name and subject index
All For Love
Author: DrydenPublisher: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with a Memoir
Author: John DrydenThe Poetical Works of John Dryden
Author: John DrydenThe Indian Emperor, 1667
Author: John DrydenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
Author: Steven N. ZwickerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden s tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities of aristocratic patronage as well as the emerging market for literary gossip, slander and polemic. Dryden s works are examined in the context of seventeenth-century politics, publishing and ideas of authorship. A valuable resource for students and scholars, the Companion includes a full chronology of Dryden s life and times and a detailed guide to further reading.