Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden
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Which John Dryden should be brought into the twentyfirst-century classroom? The rehabilitator of the ancients? The first of the moderns? The literary theorist? The translator? The playwright? The poet? This volume addresses the tensions, contradictions, and versatility of a writer who, in the words of Samuel Johnson, "found [English poetry] brick, and left it marble”, who was, in the words of Walter Scott, "one of the greatest of our masters”.

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Which John Dryden should be brought into the twentyfirst-century classroom? The rehabilitator of the ancients? The first of the moderns? The literary theorist? The translator? The playwright? The poet? This volume addresses the tensions, contradictions, and versatility of a writer who, in the words of Samuel Johnson, "found [English poetry] brick, and left it marble”, who was, in the words of Walter Scott, "one of the greatest of our masters”.
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Jayne Lewis is professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of books and articles on eighteenth-century literature and culture, and most recently Air's Appearance: Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660-1794. Lisa Zunshine is Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She is the author of Why We Read Fiction and Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible and the editor of Acting Theory and the English Stage.