%0 Book %A West, John %I Oxford University Press %D 2018 %C Oxford %G English %@ 9780191853678 %T Dryden and enthusiasm: literature, religion, and politics in Restoration England %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816409.001.0001 %7 First edition %X This work explores ideas of enthusiasm, or divine inspiration, in the works of the poet, dramatist, and literary critic John Dryden. It offers a new view of a major seventeenth-century writer and also examines the complex political and religious tensions implicit in Dryden's interest in enthusiasm