Dryden to Johnson by Roger Lonsdale

Dryden to Johnson by Roger Lonsdale This book is USED (not new) Condition: Very Good - Format: Paperback Publisher: Penguin Books, , Dimensions: 198mm / 128mm, pages SKU: 2292ar - We use NZ Post overnight for delivery so please allow 1-5 days for delivery - If you would like to see more photos of the book, ask a question and we'll add them Book Description: This volume is devoted to Augustan and 18th-century literature, from the 1660s, decade of the English Revolution, to the 1780s and 1790s, decades of revolution abroad.;Most of the great writers of the age were engaged in public life and politics. By the 1740s, which saw the deaths of Pope and Swift and the publication of Pamela and Tom Jones, writers were looking away from Rome towards the Bible, Greek poetry and earlier English literature for inspiration.;The 12 contributors to this volume integrate a sense of context with critical responses to the works in question. There are chapters on individual writers - Dryden, Swift, Pope, Sterne and Johnson - together with essays that explore the central figures and developments in the poetry, drama, fiction, prose and criticism of the period.;Published in ten volumes, The Penguin History of Literature is a critical survey of English and American literature covering 14 centuries, from the Anglo-Saxons to the present.