Memoirs of John Dryden

Memoirs of John Dryden
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1108062105

Reissued in one volume, this 1826 biography is Walter Scott's delightful exploration of the life of the great Restoration poet.

The Life of Alexander the Great

The Life of Alexander the Great
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2004-04-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1588363473

In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.” The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch’s Lives, is a riveting tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world.

Critical Essays on John Dryden

Critical Essays on John Dryden
Author: James Anderson Winn
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day. Each volume includes: -- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out the schools of thought -- The most influential reviews and the best reprinted scholarly essays -- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries -- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series -- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments -- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews -- A name and subject index

All For Love

All For Love
Author: Dryden
Publisher: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
Total Pages: 181
Release: 1957
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden

The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
Author: Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2004-05-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521531443

John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden s tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities of aristocratic patronage as well as the emerging market for literary gossip, slander and polemic. Dryden s works are examined in the context of seventeenth-century politics, publishing and ideas of authorship. A valuable resource for students and scholars, the Companion includes a full chronology of Dryden s life and times and a detailed guide to further reading.

A-Train

A-Train
Author: Charles W. Dryden
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2002-06-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0817312668

The autobiography of a black American graduate of Tuskegee Army Flying School who served as a pilot in the 99th Pursuit Squadron, offering a personal account of what it was like to be a black pilot in WWII and the Korean War. For general readers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR