Autor: David Hopkins

David Hopkins is Emeritus Professor of English Literatureand Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. Aspecialist on English poetry and literary criticism of theseventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he has written two books on John Dryden – John Dryden (1986) and Writers andtheir Work: John Dryden (2004). His latest work, Conversingwith Antiquity: English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope (2010), reflects his interest in the enduring influence on English poetry of the literature and culture of classicalantiquity. Professor Hopkins has also edited numerous volumes, including (with Paul Hammond) an annotated edition of Dryden“s complete poems.