Abstract:John Dryden’s Religio Laici (1682) was situated at the center of debates over religious toleration in Restoration England. With this poem and its preface, Dryden took up the question of how to represent—how to give poetic voice to—forbearance in a world of contentious religious belief. His answer was to orchestrate the distinctive styles of Restoration spirituality—deist and dissenter, papist and latitudinarian—by passing his voice through each position and, with an apparent concession of poetic style, to bring his performance to rest within the central tolerationist argument: liberty of tender conscience. Writing different voices, and often with an intent to abuse, may unsettle toleration’s claims of quiet forbearance with a clamor of conflict and argument, but the tension that Dryden creates between and among voices engages his readers and draws them through the styles of spirituality and into the space, the very experience of early modern toleration. Perhaps, too, Religio Laici helps us better to understand how to represent and perform what we now call tolerance.

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“ Phanaticks试玩室”：Dryden和宽容的诗学

摘要：约翰·德莱顿（John Dryden）的Religio Laici（1682）处于英国复兴时期关于宗教宽容的辩论的中心。在这首有争议的宗教信仰世界中，德莱顿以这首诗及其序言探讨了如何表现出忍耐之情。他的回答是，通过在每个职位上传递自己的声音，并以一种诗意的方式让步，使他的表演表现在中央的宽容主义论调中：自由，从而设计出恢复精神的独特风格，包括反对派和反对派，教皇主义者和纬度主义者。温柔的良心。写出不同的声音，并且常常是出于虐待的意图，可能会使宽容的声称安静和忍受冲突和争吵的主张动摇，但是德莱顿在声音之间和声音之间产生的张力吸引了他的读者，并使他们通过灵性风格进入了空间，这是早期现代宽容的体验。也许Religio Laici也可以帮助我们更好地理解如何表示和执行我们现在所说的容忍度。