Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX PDF full book. Access full book title The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX by John Dryden. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: John Dryden Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520905334 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 544
Book Description
For the first time since 1695, a complete text of De Arte Graphica as Dryden himself wrote it is available to readers. In all, Volume XX presents six pieces written during Dryden's final decade, each of them either requested by a friend or commissioned by a publisher. Two are translations, three introduce translations made by others, and the sixth introduces an original work by one of Dryden's friends. The most recent version of De Arte Graphica, Saintsbury's late nineteenth-century reissue of Scott's edition, based the text of the translated matter on an edition that was heavily revised by someone other than Dryden. In fact, only one of the pieces offered here, the brief Character of Saint-Evremond, has appeared complete in a twentieth-century edition. The commentary in this volume supplies biographical and bibliographical contexts for these pieces and draws attention to the views on history and historians, poetry and painting, Virgil and translation, which Dryden expresses in them. Many other volumes of prose, poetry, and plays are available in the California Edition of The Works of John Dryden.
Author: John Dryden Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520905334 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 544
Book Description
For the first time since 1695, a complete text of De Arte Graphica as Dryden himself wrote it is available to readers. In all, Volume XX presents six pieces written during Dryden's final decade, each of them either requested by a friend or commissioned by a publisher. Two are translations, three introduce translations made by others, and the sixth introduces an original work by one of Dryden's friends. The most recent version of De Arte Graphica, Saintsbury's late nineteenth-century reissue of Scott's edition, based the text of the translated matter on an edition that was heavily revised by someone other than Dryden. In fact, only one of the pieces offered here, the brief Character of Saint-Evremond, has appeared complete in a twentieth-century edition. The commentary in this volume supplies biographical and bibliographical contexts for these pieces and draws attention to the views on history and historians, poetry and painting, Virgil and translation, which Dryden expresses in them. Many other volumes of prose, poetry, and plays are available in the California Edition of The Works of John Dryden.
Author: John Dryden Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520905199 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 547
Book Description
This collection of prose writing from the pen of Dryden dates from 1668 to 1691, and contains work that the editors describe as "a sampler of Dryden as biographer-historian, political commentator, religious controversialist, literary polemicist, literary theorist, and practical critic. Among the works contained here is his "Essay of Dramatick Poesie."
Author: John Dryden Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520905296 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 672
Book Description
Volume XIII contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: All for Love, Oedipus, and Troilus and Cressida.
Author: John Dryden Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520913647 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 570
Book Description
The three plays in this volume, composed between 1672 or 1673 and 1675, demonstrate Dryden's versatility and inventiveness as a dramatist. Amboyna, a tragedy written to stir the English to prosecute the Third Dutch War, describes the destruction by the Dutch of English trading posts on two Indonesian islands. Regarded in its time as sensationalist, it is really a dignified drama that decries violence. The State of Innocence, termed an opera, is a rhymed version of Milton's Paradise Lost. Though never performed or set to music, it became one of Dryden's most widely read dramas. Aureng-Zebe, the last and generally considered the best of Dryden's rhymed heroic plays, portrays the rise to power of Mogul emperor Aureng-Zebe (1618-1707).
Author: John Dryden
Author: John Dryden
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Author: British Museum
Author: John Dryden
Author: Battersea, Eng. Public Libraries
Author: Battersea Public Libraries
Author: John Dryden
Author: John Dryden