Pen for a Party : : Dryden's Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts / / Phillip Harth.

Exploring the political climate during the final years of the reign of Charles II, when John Dryden wrote his great public poems and several of his dramatic works, Phillip Harth sheds new light on this writer's literary activity on behalf of the monarch. The poems Absalom and Achitophel and The...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1993
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1751
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1. The Pulpit
  • CHAPTER 2. Parliament and the Press
  • CHAPTER 3. The Nation 's Savior
  • CHAPTER 4. The Association
  • CHAPTER 5. A Second Restoration
  • Epilogue
  • APPENDIX 1. Political Allusions in Dryden 's Prologues and Epilogues, 1678-1684
  • APPENDIX 2. The Misplaced Lines in Absalom ,and Achitophel
  • Abbreviations and Note on Documentation
  • Notes
  • Index