Jennifer Brady [and others] ; edited by Earl Miner and Jennifer Brady.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
1 online resource (xii, 163 pages)
Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dryden and negotiations of literary succession and precession / Jennifer Brady -- Onely victory in him / David B. Kramer -- Ovid reformed / Earl Miner -- Another and the same / Greg Clingham.
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Dryden's writings are studded with names, conspicuously those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. He defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters: poet, playwright, critic, prose stylist, England's foremost verse translator, the first literary historian to provide a conception of periods, and what would now be termed a comparatist. This 1993 book looks at Dryden's literary relationships with Ben Jonson and with French authors (notably Corneille), at issues raised by the work thought to be his greatest by Romantic and contemporary readers, Fables Ancient and Modern; and at Samuel Johnson's definition of Dryden, whose biography in Johnson's Lives was the author's favourite. The book has implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality, as well as for the reputation and context of Dryden himself.
Literary transmission and authority.
Dryden, John,1631-1700-- Criticism and interpretation-- History.