John DrydenDryden's poetry is straightforward, bold, and energetic. He was in the public eye for some forty years, holding positions at court for a long period of time. He was indisputably perceived as the leading writer of his day. He excelled in all the types of writing practiced at the time. He wrote more, and in more genres than anyone. He accumulated to himself (it is a odd distinction) a huge mass of attacks, ranging from the reasoned to the scabrous. Dryden explained his attitudes and intentions in a large number of prologues, epilogues, prefaces, defences, and vindications-thereby quite casually producing the first body of what we now call 'criticism' in English. And yet his life and character remain something of a mystery. |
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Page 679
... Cinyras my father been , What hindered Myrrha's hopes to be his queen ? But the perverseness of my fate is such , 70 That he's not mine , because he's mine too much : Our kindred - blood debars a better tie ; He might be nearer , were ...
... Cinyras my father been , What hindered Myrrha's hopes to be his queen ? But the perverseness of my fate is such , 70 That he's not mine , because he's mine too much : Our kindred - blood debars a better tie ; He might be nearer , were ...
Page 684
... Cinyras , ' Receive thy own ! ' Thus saying , she delivered kind to kind , Accursed , and their devoted bodies joined . The sire , unknowing of the crime , admits His bowels , and profanes the hallowed sheets . ° He found she trembled ...
... Cinyras , ' Receive thy own ! ' Thus saying , she delivered kind to kind , Accursed , and their devoted bodies joined . The sire , unknowing of the crime , admits His bowels , and profanes the hallowed sheets . ° He found she trembled ...
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... Cinyras and Myrrha , Out of the Tenth Book Pygmalion and the Statue , Out of the Tenth Book Aesacus Transformed into a Cormorant Ceyx and Alcyone The Twelfth Book Acis , Polyphemus and Galatea Ajax and Ulysses , The Speeches of Of the ...
... Cinyras and Myrrha , Out of the Tenth Book Pygmalion and the Statue , Out of the Tenth Book Aesacus Transformed into a Cormorant Ceyx and Alcyone The Twelfth Book Acis , Polyphemus and Galatea Ajax and Ulysses , The Speeches of Of the ...
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To John Hoddesdon on his Divine Epigrams I | 1 |
Astraea Redux | 9 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 177 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneas Aeneid ancient Arcite Aristotle arms bear beauty behold Ben Jonson betwixt blessed blood breast Caeneus Chaucer Cinyras courser cried crime crown death Dryden e'en earth English eyes fair fame fate father fear fight fire flames force Georgics give goddess gods grace Greek ground hand haste head heart heaven honour Iliad John Dryden Jove kind king labour leave light live lord lover Lucretius maid Metamorphoses mighty mind mortal muse nature never night numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon passion Pindar Pirithous plain play pleased poem poet praise Priam prince pursue queen race rage rest rhyme Roman sacred Satire of Juvenal seas Sejanus sighed sight sire skies soul stood sweet sword tears thee Theseus thou thought translation Twas verse Virgil vows wife wind words youth