英国文学史课件05.ppt

John Dryden’s major poems: The Year of Wonders 1667 Absalom and Achitophel 1681 The Hind and the Panther 1687 A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day 1687 Alexander’s Feast 1697 John Dryden’s major dramas: The Rival Ladies 1664 The Conquest of Grenada 1670 (finest heroic play) Marriage la Mode 1672 (best comedy) All for Love 1678 (best tragedy) John Dryden’s best work, the criticism ---- An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 1668 Why should a foolish Marriage Vow, Which long ago was made, Oblige us to each other now, Where Passion is decay’d, We Lov’d, and we lov’d, as long as we could, Till our love was lov’d out in us both, But, our Marriage is death when the Pleasure is fled, ‘Twas Pleasure first made in an Oath. If I have pleasures for a friend, And farther love in store, What wrong has he whose joys did end, And who could give no more? Tis a madness that he should be jealous of me, Or that I should bar him of another: For all we can gain is to give our selves pain, When neither can hinder the other. conclusion an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Dryden established the heroic couplet as the standard meter of English poetry. Drydens heroic couplet became the dominant poetic form of the 18th century. A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth. _____ John Dryden Assignment Read one of Dryden’s plays: All for Love from the internet Main Points for today Part of lineages of British dynasties. English Revolution The 18th century England in general Enlightenment Movement Neoclassicism John Dryden (1631-1700) assignment Lineage of dynasties The Plantagenet (1154-1485) The Tudors (1485-1603) The Stuarts (1603-1714) The Hanoverians (1714-1901) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha: Edward VII (1901-1910) The House of Windsor (