Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden

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Which John Dryden should be brought into the twentyfirst-century classroom? The rehabilitator of the ancients? The first of the moderns? The literary theorist? The translator? The playwright? The poet? This volume addresses the tensions, contradictions, and versatility of a writer who, in the words of Samuel Johnson, "found [English poetry] brick, and left it marble”, who was, in the words of Walter Scott, "one of the greatest of our masters”.