JOHN DRYDEN (1631 - 1700)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Of Dramatic Poetry, and Other Essays.  Ed. George Watson.  2 Vols.  1962.

  • Essays by John Dryden.  Ed. W. P. Ker.  2 Vols.  1900.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • An Essay of Dramatic Poesy.  1668.

    • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch.  New York: Norton, 2001.  381-383.

    • The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Ed. David H. Richter.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.  163-196.

    • Criticism: the Major Statements.  New York: St. Martin's, 1980.

     3rd Ed. edited by Charles Kaplan and William Anderson, 1991.  148-199.

    • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  214-240.

On-Line:

• Archives:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668):

    • University of Toronto Version

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Kinsley, James, et al., eds.  Dryden: the Critical Heritage. 

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bredvold, L. I.  The Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden.  1934.

  • Harland, Richard.  "The British Version of Neoclassicism (Jonson, Dryden, Johnson, Addison)."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  45-49.

  • Harth, Phillip.  Contexts of Dryden's Thought.  1968.

  • Hume, Robert D.  Dryden's Criticism.  1970.

  • Huntley, F. L.  On Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy.  1951.

  • Jensen, H. James.  A Glossary of John Dryden's Critical Terms.  1969.

  • McFadden, George.  Dryden: the Public Writer, 1660-1685. 

  • McKeon, Michael.  Poetry and Politics in Restoration England. 

  • Miner, Earl.  Dryden’s Poetry. 

  • Pechter, Edward.  Dryden's Classical Theory of Literature.  1975.

  • Schilling, Bernard.  Dryden and the Conservative Myth: a Reading of “Absalom and Achitophel.”

  • Schilling, Bernard, ed.  Dryden: Twentieth Century Views. 

  • Thomas, W. K.  The Craftmanship of “Absalom and Achitophel.” 

  • Ward, C. H.  The Life of John Dryden. 

  • Wasserman, George.  John Dryden. 

  • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "English Neo-Classicism: Jonson and Dryden."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  174-195.

  • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "Dryden and Some Later Seventeenth Century Themes."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  196-220.

  • Winn, James John.  Dryden and his World. 

  • Wrykes, David.  A Preface to Dryden. 

  • Zwicker, Steven.  Politics and Language in Dryden’s Poetry. 

On-Line:

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: John Dryden

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