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John Dryden, one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century, navigated the dangers of a culture beset, like our own, by powerful tensions in both private and public life. This Companion casts new light on the poet laureate's work and life. The essays, all newly commissioned, introduce readers to the different facets of his work as well as the full array of challenges it presents. Dryden is examined as a poet, as the father of a...
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Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine Marvell's work in the contexts of Restoration politics and...