Literary Transmission and Authority
Subtitle: Dryden and Other Writers (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Contributors: Earl Miner (Editor); Jennifer Brady (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 30, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780521441117
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; English Poetry; Dryden, John, 1631-1700; Roman influences; Poetry; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Dryden, John; Dryden, John,--1631-1700--Criticism and interpretation--History; Influence; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature; Authority in literature; 1631-1700; Criticism and interpretation; Dryden, John,; History; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Knowledge
First sentence: Jonathan Swift assigned John Dryden an eminent place among the deluded moderns who dispute the reputations awarded the ancients in his Battle of the Books (1704 [1697]).