2.8 : Reading List

2..0    Objectives

2..1    Introduction

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        2.1.1    Dryden as a Critic

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        2.1.2    Dryden on The Nature of Poetry

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        2.1.3    Dryden on The Function of Poetry

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2..2    An Essay on Dramatic Poesy: An Introduction

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        2..2.1    Definition of Drama

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        2..2..2   Violation of  the Three Unities

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        2.2.3    Eugenius Arguments on Superiority of Moderns over the                   Ancients

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        2.2..4    Crites’s Arguments in favour of the Ancients

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        2..2.5    Lisideius’s view in favour of Superiority of the French                     Drama over English Drama

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        2.2..6    Neander’s view in favour of Modern (English) Drama

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2...3    The Ancients versus Modern Playwrights

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2..4    Mixture of Tragedy and Comedy

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2..5    Advocacy of writing plays in Rhymed Verse

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2.6    Let’s sum up

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2.7    Glossary of Key Terms 

2.8    Reading List

        (A)    Bibliography

        (B)    Further Reading

 (A) Webliography-

1.    http://danassays.wordpress.com/encyclopedia-of-the-essay/an-essay-of-dramatic-poesy-by-john-dryden/

2.    http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/essay/237822

3.     http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39817/39817-h/39817-h.htm

4.    http://danassays.wordpress.com/encyclopedia-of-the-essay/an-essay-of-dramatic-poesy-by-john-dryden/

5.    http://literarycriticismjohn.blogspot.in/2011/11/00030-why-is-dryden-called-father-of.html

6.     http://www.brysons.net/academic/dryden.html

7.    http://www.archive.org/stream/anessayofdramati00dryduoft/anessayofdramati00dryduoft_djvu.txt

8.    http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39817/39817-h/39817-h.htm

9.     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay_of_Dramatick_Poesie

10.    http://core.ecu.edu/engl/kaind/crit/drydtext.html

11.    http://neoenglish.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/consider-the-problem-of-dramatic-theory-and-prac

(B)sFurther Reading

    The Works of John Dryden, 20 vols., ed. H. T. Swedenberg Jr. et al., (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956–2002)

    Daiches, David, A Critical History Of English Literature (Volume - II) ISBN: 8189930443, 2010, Paperback

    John Dryden The Major Works, ed. by Keith Walker, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)

    The Works of John Dryden, ed. by David Marriott, (Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1995)

    John Dryden Selected Poems, ed by David Hopkins, (London: Everyman Paperbacks, 1998)

    Of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay, 1667: revised edition, 1684; as An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, edited by Thomas Arnold, 1889, P D Arundell. 1929, George Watson, 1962, and John L. Mahoney, 1995.

    Aden, John M., “Dryden, Corneille, and the Essay of Dramatic Poesy,” Review of English Studies 6 (1955):147–56

    Aden, John M., The Critical Opinions of John Dryden: A Dictionary, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1963

    Archer, S., “The Persons in An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,” Papers on Language and Literature 2 (1966):305–14

    Atkins, J.W.H., English Literary Criticism: 17th and 18th Centuries, London: Methuen, 1951

    Davie, D., “Dramatic Poetry: Dryden’s Conversation Piece,” Cambridge Journal 5 (1952):553–61

    Hume, R.D., Dryden’s Criticism, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1970

    Huntley, Frank L., “On the Persons of Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy,” Modern Language Notes 63 (1948):88–95

    Huntley, Frank L., On Dryden’s “Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1951

    Jensen, H.James, A Glossary of John Dryden’s Critical Terms, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969

    LeClercq, R.V., “Corneille and An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,” Comparative Literature 22 (1970):319–27

    LeClercq, R.V., “The Academic Nature of the Whole Discourse of An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,” Papers on Language and Literature 8 (1972):27–38

    Thale, Mary, “Dryden’s Dramatic Criticism: Polestar of the Ancients,” Comparative Literature 18 (1966):36–54

    Williamson, G., “The Occasion of An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,” Modern Philology 44 (1946):1–9

    Wimsatt, W.K., and Cleanth Brooks, Literary Criticism: A Short History, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978 (original edition, 1957)

    Winn, James Anderson. John Dryden and His World, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987)

    Eliot, T. S., ‘John Dryden’, in Selected Essays, (London: Faber and Faber, 1932)

    Hopkins, David, John Dryden, ed. by Isobel Armstrong, (Tavistock: Northcote House Publishers, 2004)

    Oden, Richard, L. Dryden and Shadwell, The Literary Controversy and 'Mac Flecknoe (1668–1679), (Scholars' Facsmilies and Reprints, Inc., Delmar, New York, 1977)

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