Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome

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Oxford University Press, 1999 - Literary Criticism - 305 pages
This book examines the ways in which Dryden uses Latin in his poetry and his critical writing, first through quotation and allusion, and second through formal translation. In following the varied traces of Rome in the texture of Dryden's writing, and by emphasizing his continual engagement with mutability and metamorphosis, this book argues the case for Dryden as a thoughtful, humanistic poet.

About the author (1999)

Paul Hammond is a Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at University of Leeds.