John Dryden (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Critical essay
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Criticism, Drama or dramatists, Neoclassicism
Critical Evaluation:
There is always interest in hearing what one great poet has had to say about an important predecessor, or what one dramatist has had to say about another, or what one influential critic thinks of an earlier critic. When T. S. Eliot wrote about John Dryden he spoke with peculiar and noteworthy authority: he was one famous poet-playwright-critic assessing another famous poet-playwright-critic.
There are many parallels between the careers and reputations of Eliot and Dryden. Both are better known for their poetry than for their plays, and both, perhaps,...
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