A Study of John Dryden's Satirical Poetics
by Li Shuchun
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The Romans believed that satire was their own creation, and this style of poetry had a history of nearly two thousand years until Dryden. Dryden not only wrote satirical poems, but also made comprehensive and in-depth criticisms of satirical poems, especially Roman satirical poems. The satirical poem "Absalom and Azithophel" established Dryden's enduring reputation in the history of literature, and "On the Origin and Development of Satire" is the most conscious and complete poetic work on satire. This book takes Dryden's criticism as the starting point, combines his satirical poems and other poetic works, starts from tracing the origin of "satire", and discusses Dryden's poetic views on the appropriate way of satire, the poetic form (rhyme and style) of satire, and the moral dimension of satire. Through these poetic propositions of Dryden, combined with the investigation of many related poetic issues in the neoclassical period, this book constructs a relatively complete system of Dryden's satirical poetics.
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