János Barcsák, Márta Pellérdi

English literature 1660-1900

Education and Early Career

Dryden was born as the first of fourteen children in the family of a Puritan country gentleman. He attended Westminster School, a distinguished grammar school, where he received a solid humanistic education, focussing on the classical languages and authors. His curriculum also included regular translation assignments from the classics and the study of dialectic, that is, the art of arguing for both sides of a controversial issue. Both these skills became central in his subsequent literary career, as the final phase of his life was devoted primarily to translations, and as he turned his skills in dialectic to very good use in his most famous critical work, An Essay of Dramatick Poesie. After his secondary education he attended Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his degree in 1654.

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2018

ISBN: 978 963 454 261 2

A history of the English literature is presented here, with a scope on the years 1660 to 1900. The book is written in three main parts; beginning with the Restoration Period of the 17th century, followed by the first, and second halves of the 18th century. Thus, a sequential development of literary genres is presented, with explorations of the key figures and texts which drove these. The book also synthesises the historical, cultural and sociological background which gave rise to this literature, and allows the reader to effectively contextualise these.

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