This book examines the ways in which Dryden uses Latin in his poetry and his critical writing, first through quotation and allusion, and second through formal translation. In following the varied traces of Rome in the texture of Dryden's writing, and by emphasizing his continual engagement with mutability and metamorphosis, this book argues the case for Dryden as a thoughtful, humanistic poet.
This book examines the ways in which Dryden uses Latin in his poetry and his critical writing, first through quotation and allusion, and second throug...
Volume Four covers poems published between 1693 and 1696, principally Dryden's translations from Juvenal and Persius, and those from Ovid and Homer included in the miscellany Examen Poeticum (1693). This new edition represents the most informative and accessible edition of Dryden's poetry, incorporating extensive new research and providing an invaluable resource for all those interested in English poetry and Restoration culture.
Volume Four covers poems published between 1693 and 1696, principally Dryden's translations from Juvenal and Persius, and those from Ovid and Homer in...
The Shadow and Its Shadow is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing.
The forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical re-visions of the seventh art in this anthology document Surrealism's scandalous and nonreductive take on film. Writing between 1918 and 1977, the essayists include such names as Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos, Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel, and man Ray, as well as many of the less famous though equally fascinating figures of the movement.
Paul Hammond's introduction limns the history of Surrealist...
The Shadow and Its Shadow is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing.
John Dryden was England's most outstanding and controversial writer for the last four decades of the seventeenth century. He dominated the literary world as a satirist, a skilled and versatile dramatist, a pioneer of literary criticism, a writer of religious poetry, and an eloquent translator from the great classical poets. The present book discusses Dryden's career both chronologically and thematically, taking issue with his enemies' denigration of his integrity, and revealing him as a subtle, passionate and sceptical writer.
John Dryden was England's most outstanding and controversial writer for the last four decades of the seventeenth century. He dominated the literary wo...
Paul Hammond explores the representation of sexual relations between men in English literature of the seventeenth century. He includes detailed readings of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and shows how his plays added homosexual elements to his source stories. He also analyses the satirical representation of homosexual kings such as James I and William III, and the homoerotic poetry of Marvell and Rochester.
Paul Hammond explores the representation of sexual relations between men in English literature of the seventeenth century. He includes detailed readin...
Prepared from a fresh examination of the early printed editions of Dryden's work, volume three of "The Poems of John Dryden" covers the poems written by the writer between 1686 and 1696. The poet's language is glossed in unprecedented detail.
Prepared from a fresh examination of the early printed editions of Dryden's work, volume three of "The Poems of John Dryden" covers the poems written ...
Explores the specific meanings of key words in Milton's Paradise Lost and the diverse ways in which the characters of Milton's poem use and misuse these concepts.
Explores the specific meanings of key words in Milton's Paradise Lost and the diverse ways in which the characters of Milton's poem use and misuse the...
