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Dryden's Final Poetic Mode - The Fables (Hardcover)
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Dryden's Final Poetic Mode - The Fables (Hardcover)
Series: Anniversary Collection
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Two months before he died, Dryden published a collection of verse
translations and original poetry, Fables Ancient and Modern, the
work for which he was most admired throughout the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Cedric Reverand argues that Fables, which has
for the most part escaped modern scrutiny, embodies a purposeful,
subversive strategy, and constitutes a new poetic mode that emerged
when the laureate, public spokesman for king and country, lost his
official post and became an outcast, a minority voice. In Dryden's
Final Poetic Mode, Reverand focuses on Dryden's characteristic
concerns-love and war, power and kingship, the heroic code, the
Christian ideal-tracing how Dryden assembles informing ideals and
yet dissolves them as well. By examining Dryden's treatment of
familiar issues, Reverand demonstrates that this final poetic mode
is not discontinuous with the earlier poetry bill is a further
development, a reevaluation of the principles that sustained the
poet throughout his career. Fables expresses Dryden's personal
experience dealing with a changed and changing world. With the
values he cherished crumbling, he is trapped into trying to
reconcile the irreconcilable. His book reveals the fragility of
various systems of value and the futility of discovering abiding
ideals in a universe of perpetual flux, but it also reveals a poet
who actively pursues meaning rather than surrendering to despair.
It is this attempt to accommodate to a changing, subversive world
that Reverand asserts is the impulse behind Fables and the central
issue of Dryden's life in the1690s. Dryden's Final Poetic Mode will
interest students and scholars of seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century British literature.
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