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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... Metamorphoses in 1717 , in which Dryden's translations figure largely . Dryden's pension was £ 1,075 in arrears when Charles II died in 1685. It was not possible for him to write poems which commented on public affairs . A few poems ...
... Metamorphoses in 1717 , in which Dryden's translations figure largely . Dryden's pension was £ 1,075 in arrears when Charles II died in 1685. It was not possible for him to write poems which commented on public affairs . A few poems ...
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John Dryden Keith Walker. The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses Of bodies changed to various forms I sing : Ye gods , from whom these miracles did spring , Inspire my numbers ... METAMORPHOSES The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
John Dryden Keith Walker. The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses Of bodies changed to various forms I sing : Ye gods , from whom these miracles did spring , Inspire my numbers ... METAMORPHOSES The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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... Metamorphoses 11. 92 ff . 381 11. 246-7 . Eupolis ... Cratinus . ' Eupolis and Cratinus as also Aristophanes mentioned afterward were all Athenian poets , who wrote that sort of comedy which was called the old comedy , where the people ...
... Metamorphoses 11. 92 ff . 381 11. 246-7 . Eupolis ... Cratinus . ' Eupolis and Cratinus as also Aristophanes mentioned afterward were all Athenian poets , who wrote that sort of comedy which was called the old comedy , where the people ...
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To John Hoddesdon on his Divine Epigrams I | 1 |
Astraea Redux | 9 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 177 |
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