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  1. Otherworldly John Dryden
    Occult Rhetoric in His Poems and Plays
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  [ProQuest], Surrey, England

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781472424990; 9781472424976
    Scope: 1 online resource (198 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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  2. Otherworldly John Dryden
    Occult Rhetoric in His Poems and Plays
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781472424983; 1472424980; 130670572X; 9781306705721; 9781472424976; 1472424972; 9781472424990
    Subjects: Dryden, John, 1631-1700 / Criticism and interpretation; Dryden, John; Literature; Occultism in literature; POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Occultism in literature; Literatur; Occultism in literature; Okkultismus; Sprache
    Other subjects: Dryden, John / 1631-1700; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Dryden, John (1631-1700)
    Scope: 198 pages
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    Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Early Poems, 1649-63; 2 The American Plays, 1664-65; 3 Annus Mirabilis and The Tempest, 1667; 4 Tyrannick Love and The Conquest of Granada, 1669-71; 5 The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe, and the Limits of Poetic Vision, 1674-77; 6 All for Love, 1677; 7 Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida, and The Spanish Fryar, 1678-80; 8 Absalom and Achitophel, The Medall, The Duke of Guise, and Albion and Albanius, 1681-85; 9 Later Public Poems, Elegies, and Poems about Art, 1685-96; 10 King Arthur, 1691; Conclusion: The Secular Masque, 1700

    Reminding readers of John Dryden's persistent use of occult rhetoric, Armistead argues that Dryden's otherworldliness involves more than Christian apologetics, biblical typology, or intermittent borrowings from the supernatural materials in classical literature. Otherworldly John Dryden engages with a wide range of the writer's poetry and plays, enhancing our understanding of Dryden's works and tracing the writer's attitudes about Providence and the ability of the poet to perceive a hidden design in earthly events

    Includes bibliographical references and index