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Dryden and the problem of freedom : the republican aftermath, 1649-1680
- Title
- Dryden and the problem of freedom : the republican aftermath, 1649-1680 / David B. Haley.
- Author
- Haley, David, 1936-
- Publication
- New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [1997], ©1997.
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- Description
- x, 285 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- In this revisionary study of Dryden's thought, David Haley argues that Dryden was the first English poet after Shakespeare to engage in historical reflection upon his own culture. Addressing an audience for whom literature was bound up with religion and politics, Dryden exercised the moral integrity of a public poet and brought home to his readers the meaning of their historical experience.
- Subjects
- Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Republicanism in literature
- Political poetry, English > History and criticism
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 1660-1688
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700 > Political and social views
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 1649-1660
- Liberty in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-275) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Public Poet -- 1. Praise and Deliberation under the Republic -- 2. Cromwell and the Millennium -- 3. This Talking Trumpet: Dryden's Hermeneutics -- 4. False Freedom and Restoration -- 5. The Last Age -- 6. Masterless Men: The Heroic Plays -- 7. Our Author Swears It Not: Satire.
- ISBN
- 0300066074 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96043964
- OCLC
- 35620382
- ocm35620382
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries