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)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 23, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780521032018
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Dryden, John, --1631-1700--Criticism and inte; Dryden, John,--1631-1700--Criticism and interpretation--History; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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]).