Time to Begin Anew: Dryden's Georgics and AeneisTime to Begin Anew places Dryden's translations of Virgil's Georgics and Aeneis firmly in the context of late seventeenth-century literary and political dilemmas and transitions. Arguing that these translations are important documents in a watershed period of English literature, this study demonstrates that they are not hackwork or party pieces. This book also demonstrates both the continuities with and departures from Dryden's own early works, particularly his Virgilian poems, showing both the wholeness of his literary career and its diversity. |
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Page 61
... laws and mutable human laws . After listing what the " Genius of the Soil " produces best in different places Dryden declares , This is the Orig'nal Contract ; these the Laws Impos'd by Nature and Nature's Cause , On sundry Places ...
... laws and mutable human laws . After listing what the " Genius of the Soil " produces best in different places Dryden declares , This is the Orig'nal Contract ; these the Laws Impos'd by Nature and Nature's Cause , On sundry Places ...
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... laws underlying his and Vergil's poems as well as the essential difference between Rome and England . In a statement that also points at the Glorious Revolution , he observes that Sylla , in his proscriptions , " had nothing but Liberty ...
... laws underlying his and Vergil's poems as well as the essential difference between Rome and England . In a statement that also points at the Glorious Revolution , he observes that Sylla , in his proscriptions , " had nothing but Liberty ...
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... Laws , when he finds it necessary so to do ; especially if those Laws are not altogether funda- mental " ( 5 : 300-301 ) . Both Dryden's language and the universalized comment which pref- aces this discussion illustrate that his mind is ...
... Laws , when he finds it necessary so to do ; especially if those Laws are not altogether funda- mental " ( 5 : 300-301 ) . Both Dryden's language and the universalized comment which pref- aces this discussion illustrate that his mind is ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
On Equal Terms with Ancient Wit Engaging | 27 |
Studying Natures Laws | 55 |
Copyright | |
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