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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... Iliad 687 The Cock and the Fox 707 Theodore and Honoria 727 Ceyx and Alcyone 738 The Flower and the Leaf The Twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses 751 766 The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses 787 The Wife of Bath's Tale 802 Of the ...
... Iliad 687 The Cock and the Fox 707 Theodore and Honoria 727 Ceyx and Alcyone 738 The Flower and the Leaf The Twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses 751 766 The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses 787 The Wife of Bath's Tale 802 Of the ...
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... Iliad of Homer . If it shall please God to give me longer life and moderate health , my intentions are to translate the whole Iliad ; provided still that I meet with those encouragements from the public which may enable me to proceed in ...
... Iliad of Homer . If it shall please God to give me longer life and moderate health , my intentions are to translate the whole Iliad ; provided still that I meet with those encouragements from the public which may enable me to proceed in ...
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John Dryden Keith Walker. The First Book of Homer's Iliad THE ARGUMENT Chryses , priest of Apollo , brings presents to the Grecian princes , to ransom his daughter Chryseis , who was ... ILIAD 687 The First Book of Homer's Iliad.
John Dryden Keith Walker. The First Book of Homer's Iliad THE ARGUMENT Chryses , priest of Apollo , brings presents to the Grecian princes , to ransom his daughter Chryseis , who was ... ILIAD 687 The First Book of Homer's Iliad.
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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