This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers
students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry
and prose of John Dryden, the most important poet, dramatist,
translator, and literary theorist of the later seventeenth century.
He wrote across the tumultuous decades of political and cultural
revolution - years stretching from the end of the Cromwellian
Protectorate in 1659 through the reign of William III - and he
addressed the crucial events of those decades. These were years of
unprecedented political revolution, and of a remarkable
transformation of English literary culture, with John Dryden at the
literary centre. He invented new literary modes including the
theatre of spectacle known as heroic drama; he perfected the heroic
couplet, a form that became the chief instrument of public poetry;
he adapted works of Shakespeare and Milton; he wrote excoriating
satire; he brought the translation of classical poetry to new
levels of perfection; and throughout his career he wrote works of
literary theory that defined his own practices and the literary
ethos of his age. By the time that Dryden died in 1700 he had
redefined English literary culture; his work recalled and embodied
all the genres and modes of early modern literature and anticipated
the brilliance of eighteenth-century satire. This edition
represents the span of a long career in its remarkable variety. All
the genres in which Dryden wrote are represented: panegyrics,
lyrics, odes, epigrams, verse epistles, historical poems,
commendatory verse, commemorative poems, religious poems, satires,
plays, prologues and epilogues, translations, critical prose,
dedications, prefaces, biography, and letters. Explanatory notes
and commentary enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of
these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life
and works of Dryden, a Chronology and a Biographical Appendix.
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