John Dryden (9 Aug 1631 – 30 April 1700), nicknamed Town-Bayes, an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England.
Born in the village rectory of Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The eldest of 14 children of Eramus Dryden and Mary Pickering – an Parliamentary supporting family with Puritan learnings.
In
His fame grew following
a successful lecture
tour of
North America in 1882
Thousands came, including
silver miners in Colorado, to
hear him speak on the topic
of aesthetics and the arts
Arriving in America in 1882, Wilde declared to US Customs:
"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
Wilde did not become a
dramatist until the 1890’s.
Among his other earlie
Challenging the notion that thepoet (a self-present subject) transmits a particular message ("experience," "emotion") to a reader (another self-present subject) through a language which is neutral, transparent, "natural.“
Post-modernistic view of language
ofthe plays of Shakespeare has a "meaning," although it would be equally false to say that a play of Shakespeare is meaningless. All great poetry gives the illusion of a view of life. When we enter into the world of Homer, or Sophocles, or Virgil, or Dante, or Shakespeare, we incline to believe that we are apprehending something that can be expressed intellectually; for every precise emotion t
영국 역사의 시작
영국 역사의 시작은 5세기경 German 족의 침략(Anglo-Saxon Conquest)으로부터 시작된다. 물론 그 이전 Roman Empire의 지배를 받던, Celt족의 Britania(또는 Briton)가 있었으나, 아직 국가로서의 조직이나 체계를 갖추지 못한 상태였다. Caesar가 로마 경영을 위해 Briton을 떠나자, German 족들(Angles, Saxons,