John Dryden
1986, 1st Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Provenance; the critic and poetry activist Charles Tomlinson’s copy; with his (extensive) marginal notes. Item #360098
Physical description: 224 pages. Contents: Machine derived contents note: Preface; Introduction; 1. Dryden's verse; 2. Disappointment and promise: Dryden's early career; 3. Poems of controversy: Mac Flecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel; 4. New directions: religion and translation in the 1680s; 5. 'Studying Nature's Laws': the Juvenal and Virgil; 6. An improving writer to his last': the Fables; Notes' Index. Subjects: Dryden, John 1631-1700 Criticism and interpretation. Dryden, John 1631-1700. Poets, English ; Biography. English poetry 17th century History and criticism.
Price: €25.00