- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
-
1 Milton’s Spots -
2 Critical Mass -
3 ‘A Fine Paradisaical Notion’ -
4 ‘In the Dun Air Sublime’ -
5 Milton’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy -
6 John Dennis, John Locke, and the Sublimation of Revolt -
7 ‘To Secure Our Freedom’ -
8 Milton Modulated for Handel’s Music -
9 John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell to John Milton -
10 ‘I Still Deny’d, Much Pleas’d to Hear You Sue’ -
11 Angel Bodies to Whig Souls -
12 Yet Once More -
13 Milton’s Pope -
14 The Circling Hours -
15 ‘In Power of Others, Never in My Own’ -
16 Milton and the Restoration Literae -
17 Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism -
18 Friday as Fit Help -
19 Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age -
20 Haak’s Milton -
21 Miltonic Texts and European Politics, 1674–1682 -
22 Purging the Visual Nerve -
23 Some Thoughts on Periodization -
24 Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope’s Iliad -
25 Paradise Lost and English Mock Heroic -
26 Milton and the People -
27 Paradise Lost in the Long Restoration, 1660–1742 -
28 Raphael’s Condescension -
29 ‘His Ears Now Were Eyes to Him’ - Bibliography
- Index
John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell to John Milton
John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell to John Milton
A Restoration Drama in Three Acts
- Chapter:
- (p.181) 9 John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell to John Milton
- Source:
- Milton in the Long Restoration
- Author(s):
Steven N. Zwicker
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
John Dryden and John Milton first met in 1659 when Dryden worked in the Protectorate’s Office of Foreign Tongues. Thereafter, as Dryden’s literary celebrity rose and his rhyming couplets dominated the stage, Milton’s blank verse struggled for market share. Yet the younger man solicited permission to fashion a rhyming drama from Paradise Lost, and more than once he paid guarded compliment to the Miltonic sublime. That was not Dryden’s idiom, but he understood its power and the shadow it cast over the later decades of the seventeenth century. This chapter is an effort to understand their relations, both admiring and rivalrous, to map in their aesthetics and their politics both distance and affinity, and to see in Dryden’s accommodation to Milton’s enduring presence an acknowledgment of the complex genealogy of modern English literature—a lineage that reached from Homer and Vergil to John Milton and, yes, to John Dryden himself.
Keywords: literary rivalry, politics of style, rhyme, heroic drama, John Dryden, John Milton
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
-
1 Milton’s Spots -
2 Critical Mass -
3 ‘A Fine Paradisaical Notion’ -
4 ‘In the Dun Air Sublime’ -
5 Milton’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy -
6 John Dennis, John Locke, and the Sublimation of Revolt -
7 ‘To Secure Our Freedom’ -
8 Milton Modulated for Handel’s Music -
9 John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell to John Milton -
10 ‘I Still Deny’d, Much Pleas’d to Hear You Sue’ -
11 Angel Bodies to Whig Souls -
12 Yet Once More -
13 Milton’s Pope -
14 The Circling Hours -
15 ‘In Power of Others, Never in My Own’ -
16 Milton and the Restoration Literae -
17 Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism -
18 Friday as Fit Help -
19 Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age -
20 Haak’s Milton -
21 Miltonic Texts and European Politics, 1674–1682 -
22 Purging the Visual Nerve -
23 Some Thoughts on Periodization -
24 Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope’s Iliad -
25 Paradise Lost and English Mock Heroic -
26 Milton and the People -
27 Paradise Lost in the Long Restoration, 1660–1742 -
28 Raphael’s Condescension -
29 ‘His Ears Now Were Eyes to Him’ - Bibliography
- Index
