Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire

The satiric vision of politics: Ethics, interests and disorders

“…Satire may not be a universal trait, but it is more than a purely Western invention. As John Dryden famously observed in his Discourse concerning Satire , ‘Scoffs and Revilings are of the growth of all Nations’ (Dryden, 1693).…”

Satire Bust

“…12 For John Dryden, satire aimed at "the amendment of vices"; the animating spirit of satiric poetry, he asserted, was "the scourging of Vice and Exhortation to Virtue." 13 Daniel Defoe considered it a means of "reformation." 14 It is these characters and attitudes -Self's people, rather than the movie stars -who form the moral mine from which Money's narrator pulls his nuggets of opinion.…”

Definitions of Self and Other in and Through Literary Communication

“…The offered definition of the other seems to have been that of a person open-minded and witty enough to appreciate such a man and stance. Seen in this light and in the terms of Watzlawick et al (1967), it would appear that John Dryden's (1986) comment was a rejection of the proposed definitions and the proposed coterie or complicity with the fellow⎯author Donne.…”