Dryden, John - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Criticism
Barnard, John. "Dryden: History and "The Mighty Government of the Nine.'" The University of Leeds Review 24 (1981):13-42.
Discusses how in his poetry Dryden pointedly directed his audience toward historical and political events rather than the universal themes preferred by the later Romantics.
Benson, Donald R. "Space, Time, and the Language of Transcendence in Dryden's Later Poetry." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 8, No. 1 (Spring 1984): 10-16.
Compares the scientific theories of Newton against Dryden's later spirituality as seen in such poems as The Hind and the Panther.
Blake, David Haven Jr. "The Politics of Commercial Language in Dryden's Annus Mirabilis." Criticism XXXIV, No. 3 (Summer 1992): 327-48.
Identifies in Annus Mirabilis Dryden's preoccupation...
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