1st Edition

Dryden's Poetic Kingdoms (Routledge Revivals)

By Alan Roper Copyright 1965
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Dr. Roper describes the mode of many of Dryden’s original poems by redefining the royalism that provides the matter of some works and the metaphoric vocabulary of others. Dryden’s royalism is seen both as an identifiable political attitude and a way of apprehending public life that again and again relates superficially non-political matters to the standards and assumptions of politics in order to... Read more

Preface;  Prologue;  Analogies for Poetry;  Rhetoric for Poetry;  The Kingdom of England;  The Kingdom of Adam;  The Kingdom of Letters;  Epilogue;  Notes;  Index

Biography

Alan Roper