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.
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One of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States.
Literary Experimentalist
Stream of consciousness
Fragmented chronology
Shifting point of view
Multiple narrative voices
Southern Gothic
feature grotesque scenes, violence and horror, distorted characters, melodrama, and sensationalism.
It begins with the death of Emily Grierson and starts to recall Emi
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
Muddy water->gold
: The change may represent the improved status of
African Americans after the Civil War.
Personification: “the singing of the Mississippi,”
“muddy bosom,”
“Dusky rivers”
The final line reaf
Classicism
In the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seeks to emulate.
Originally Classicism was professed for humanism, equality, liberty, etc.
Later it was studied deductively. So the art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained.
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism -the name given to quite
different leadership styles: directive, supportive, participative, and achievement oriented. The way respondents score on each of the different styles provides them with information on their strong and weak styles, as well as the relative importance they place on each of the styles.
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