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- Title
An Early Reader of Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel.
- Authors
Lewis, Rhodri
- Abstract
The article discusses a letter dated November 21, 1681 from English mathematician Robert Wood to his friend English economist and inventor Sir William Petty, then a resident in Dublin, Ireland, in which Wood discusses the anonymously published political poem "Absalom and Achitophel" attributed to John Dryden. The poem is a political satire written about the exclusion crisis. The letter provides a key to the persons mentioned in the poem which includes Nadab as William Howard, Baron Howard of Escrick; Zadoc as the Archbishop of Canterbury; and Pharaoh as Louis XIV, King of France.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; PETTY, William, Sir, 1623-1687; WOOD, Robert; LETTERS; DRYDEN, John, 1631-1700; ABSALOM &; Achitophel (Poem : Dryden); ENGLISH political satire; ENGLISH verse satire; EXCLUSION Crisis, Great Britain, 1678-1683; BRITISH politics &; government, 1660-1688; SEVENTEENTH century; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2010, Vol 57, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjp253