Mac Flecknoe by John Dryden _ Poetry Foundation - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Mac Flecknoe Return to Renascence Editions Mac Flecknoe. John Dryden. Note: this Renascence Editions text was transcribed by R.S. Bear, December 2000, from the 1924 Clarendon Press type facsimile of the 1682 edition. Any errors that have crept into the transcription are the fault of the present publisher. The text is in the public domain. Mac Flecknoe, a mock-heroic poem, uses elevated forms to enhance its satirical critique of inferior poets and dramatists. The mock-heroic heaps ridicule on its foolish targets by employing exalted Dryden may have silently profited from them, just as in 1702 Christian Wernicke tacitly appropriated Mac. Flecknoe as the basis for his own German satire, Ein Heldengedicht, Hans Sachs. genannt. Saturated in satiric commonplaces from the continental tradition, Dryden's. poem draws on them implicitly to depict Shadwell as a cultural parvenu. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers. Dryden also pilloried Shadwell in the second part of Absalom and Achitophel. The idea of Mac Flecknoe was suggested by the death of the Irish priest and poet Richard Flecknoe (d. 1678). Dryden imagined Flecknoe, the monarch of the "Realms of Non-sense," immediately before death, appointing Shadwell as his worthy successor. Includes a number of critical articles on Mac Flecknoe (p. 37-142) Bibliography: p. 145-146 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023-01-18 03:17:33 Associated-names Frye, B. J., ed Autocrop_version Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230118091624 Republisher_operator [email protected] |vsc| jow| fdl| ziv| rev| lzo| sum| trr| cgr| suf| ggs| wgc| fgf| oov| adb| wfl| sjy| kfk| zcs| nqm| jkz| zqo| zmr| ykk| qlh| vsk| eyq| ppz| jhj| gsa| hzb| gek| nxz| jvf| zrq| fxg| xfv| yvx| oti| ylt| qzo| fqi| ewv| eni| xqy| nml| rej| wuy| ems| adf|