..., but the central thesis is narrowly single-minded and strangely inconclusive. ILONABELL Wi11 iums College Dryden the Public Writer, 1660-1685. By GEORGEMCFADDEN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xi 4- 305 pp. $16.50...

..., constantly shifting, dynamic struggle between Word and Spirit. Both are well represented here. ILONABELL Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Faith of John Dryden: Change and Continuity. By G. DOUGLASATKINS. Lexing- ton: University...

... John Dryden: Some Biographical Facts and Problems. By JAMES M. OSBORN.New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. Pp. xvi + 295. $3.50. Mr. Osborn characterizes his volume as “an attempt to do a little of the preliminary digging” for Dryden’s next biographer, who “will have...

... thought with the poetry-painting equivalence in Marino (pp. 94-95). Alan D. McKillop 199 Without a break in continuity, Part Two centers on the cultural background and the artistic achievements of the major English poets from Dryden...

... into German as compared with translating into the other Western European languages. In general Dr. Melz’s monograph is written with the attention to details and the enthusiasm which its subject deserves. LIENHARDBERGEL Queens College Voltaire, Dryden...

...Michael B. Prince This essay reopens the case of two identically titled works that appeared within twelve months of each other, a preface and poem by John Dryden (1682) and a philosophical treatise by Charles Blount (1683). It argues that the latter was written before the former and not by Blount...

... ENGELL.Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1989. x + 322 pp. $30.00. As most people who work in eighteenth-century criticism no doubt real- ize, we need a good, up-to-date study of the transformations in critical thinking between the eras of Dryden and Coleridge. Unfortunately...

...Dustin Griffin Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 DRYDEN’S “OLDHAM” AND THE PERILS OF WRITING By DUSTINGRIFFIN During the twentieth century, though Dryden’s critical fortunes have fluctuated, his...

...Robert D. Hume Michael McKeon. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1975. xiv + 336 pp. $15.00. Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 REVIEWS Politics and Poetry in Restoration England: The Case of Dryden’s “Annus...

...Alan S. Fisher Edward Pechter. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. viii + 225 pp. $14.95. Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 REVIEWS Dryden’s Classical Theory of Literature. BY EDWARDPECHTER. New York and London...

... from this harvest, but the other “pieces of Renaissance literature” which she reads here give ample evidence of the sharpness of her scythe. SEARSJAYNE Queens College City University of New York Dryden’s Poetry. By EARLMINER...

... and London: Cornell Uni- versity Press, 1970. svi 4- 236 pp. $8.00; 76s. Dryclen studies flourish in this country, not least at Cornell. Within months we have been greeted by Sanford Buclick’s spirited examination of Dryden’s religious poems and now by Robert Hunw’s fresh stucly of Dryden’s...

...Alan H. Roper Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 DRYDEN’S “SECULAR MASQUE” By ALANH. ROPER Until 1956 it seemed that there was nothing mare of importance to be said about Dryden’s “Secular Masque.” For nearly 150 years Scott’s...

...Arthur W. Hoffman Frank Harper Moore. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. 264 pp. $6.00. Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 498 REVIEWS The Nobler Pleasure: Dryden’s Comedy in Theory and Practice...

...Wallace Jackson Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 DRYDEN’S EMPEROR AND LILLO’S MERCHANT THE RELEVANT BASES OF ACTION By WALLACEJACKSON Though AlZ for Love no longer occupies our stage, it has become...

...Jennifer Brady Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Collaborating with the Forebear: Dryden’s Reception of Ben Jonson Jennifer Brady Gramercie, good HORACE. Nay, we are new turn’d Poet too, which is more; and a Satyrist too, which is more then that: I write...

... is dated, even antiquated, because it is treated as a period. It seems as if a generation has learned to read Restoration poetry through Dryden, and from Dryden to assume that poetry published during the Restoration must be poetry about the Restoration. Milton does not read his sources the way...

...Thomas J. Otten Ekphrasis undergoes a decisive shift in Nathaniel Hawthorne and his contemporaries. Whereas Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and other seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers (John Dryden, Alexander Pope) distinguished between verbal and visual arts through metaphors of realms...

... extent determined by the theory and practice of Dryden-in par- ticular, by his conception of satire as a sister form of epic. In his critical essays, Dryden, unlike most earlier writers, emphasizes dignity, elegance, delicacy of style, “the beautiful turns of words and thoughts, which...

... they wither’d and adored.* Keats is known to have been reading Dryden’s Fables when he wrote Lamia, and Dryden’s influence on the poem is generally recog- nized.* But in Dryden’s version of the Wife of Bath’s Tale the point of the opening is almost lost. Though he dwells at length upon...