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The Faith of John Dryden

Change and Continuity

  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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John Dryden's celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism is revealed in this provocative study as the culmination of a lifelong search that began with his youth in an actively Puritan family. Atkin's familiarity with the religious thought of the times allows him to range widely among Dryden's contemporaries and predecessors and to bring a fresh perspective to those key poems in Dryden's religious development: Religio Laici and The Hind and the Panther. Through a sensitive reappraisal of all Dryden's texts-including those less widely known-Atkins shows that Dryden had a lifelong antipathy for all "priests" of whatever sect, whether pagan or Christian; by concentrating on the theme of Dryden's opposition to the clergy and his efforts toward articulating a faith for the layman, Atkins provides an important new way of tracing and evaluating the changes in Dryden's religious position and, with this perspective, offers a new interpretation of Dryden's conversion.
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  • Title

    The Faith of John Dryden

  • Author

    G Douglas Atkins

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    The University Press of Kentucky

  • Published

    July 2014

  • Weight

    273g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780813150857

  • ISBN-10

    081315085X

  • Eden Code

    4308429

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