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John Dryden
David Hopkins
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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 to animal and inanimate nature; the forces, internal and external which serve to ennoble, enrich and confound human endeavour; the capacities and ... Read more
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 to animal and inanimate nature; the forces, internal and external which serve to ennoble, enrich and confound human endeavour; the capacities and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746310045
SKU
V9780746310045
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About David Hopkins
David Hopkins is Professor of English Literature, University of Bristol. His many publications include, as editor, The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets (1994); and, as co-editor (with Paul Hammond), The Poems of John Dryden, vols 3-4 (2000); and John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays (2000). He is an external examiner for Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Lancaster universities and British Academy Research ... Read more
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