Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Religio laici. Threnodia Augustalis. The hind and the panther. Britannia rediviva. Prologues and epilogues. Mack-Flecknoe
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Britannia rediviva: a poem on the birth of the Prince
Britannia Rediviva
Britannia Rediviva
Time to Begin Anew
Author: Tanya Caldwell
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754351
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"Time to Begin Anew significantly extends our understanding of Dryden's Virgil, while at the same time providing a sophisticated account of the cultural and political currents of the 1690s."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754351
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"Time to Begin Anew significantly extends our understanding of Dryden's Virgil, while at the same time providing a sophisticated account of the cultural and political currents of the 1690s."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Ideas of the Restoration in English Literature, 1660-71
Author: Nicholas Jose
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349066354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349066354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
British Poets
The British Poets
Author: British poets
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The British Poets
Queen Anne
Author: James Anderson Winn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199372217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the guitar and the harpsichord, danced regularly, and took a connoisseur's interest in all the arts. In this comprehensive interdisciplinary biography, James Winn tells the story of Anne's life in new breadth and detail, and in unprecedented cultural context. Winn shows how poets, painters, and musicians used the works they made for Anne to send overt and covert political messages to the queen, the court, the church, and Parliament. Their works also illustrate the pathos of Anne's personal life: the loss of her mother when she was six, her troubled relations with her father and her sister (James II and Mary II), and her own doomed efforts to produce an heir. Her eighteen pregnancies produced only one child who lived past infancy; his death at the age of eleven, mourned by poets, was a blow from which Anne never fully recovered. Her close friendship with Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a topic of scabrous ballads and fictions, ended in bitter discord; the death of her husband in 1708 left her emotionally isolated; and the wrangling among her chief ministers hastened her death. Richly illustrated with visual and musical examples, Queen Anne draws on works by a wide array of artists-among them the composer George Frideric Handel, the poet Alexander Pope, the painter Godfrey Kneller, and the architect Christopher Wren-to shed new light on Anne's life and reign. This is the definitive biography of Queen Anne.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199372217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the guitar and the harpsichord, danced regularly, and took a connoisseur's interest in all the arts. In this comprehensive interdisciplinary biography, James Winn tells the story of Anne's life in new breadth and detail, and in unprecedented cultural context. Winn shows how poets, painters, and musicians used the works they made for Anne to send overt and covert political messages to the queen, the court, the church, and Parliament. Their works also illustrate the pathos of Anne's personal life: the loss of her mother when she was six, her troubled relations with her father and her sister (James II and Mary II), and her own doomed efforts to produce an heir. Her eighteen pregnancies produced only one child who lived past infancy; his death at the age of eleven, mourned by poets, was a blow from which Anne never fully recovered. Her close friendship with Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a topic of scabrous ballads and fictions, ended in bitter discord; the death of her husband in 1708 left her emotionally isolated; and the wrangling among her chief ministers hastened her death. Richly illustrated with visual and musical examples, Queen Anne draws on works by a wide array of artists-among them the composer George Frideric Handel, the poet Alexander Pope, the painter Godfrey Kneller, and the architect Christopher Wren-to shed new light on Anne's life and reign. This is the definitive biography of Queen Anne.