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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... Priam and Astyanax murdered , and Cassandra ravished , and the lust and murder ending in the victory of him who acted them . In short , there is no indecorum in any of our modern plays , which , if I would excuse , I could not shadow ...
... Priam and Astyanax murdered , and Cassandra ravished , and the lust and murder ending in the victory of him who acted them . In short , there is no indecorum in any of our modern plays , which , if I would excuse , I could not shadow ...
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... Priam , loving a country life , forsakes the court ; living ob- scurely , he falls in love with a nymph , who , flying from him , was killed by a serpent ; for grief of this , he would have drowned himself ; but , by the pity of the ...
... Priam , loving a country life , forsakes the court ; living ob- scurely , he falls in love with a nymph , who , flying from him , was killed by a serpent ; for grief of this , he would have drowned himself ; but , by the pity of the ...
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... Priam and Hecuba Hecuba , wife of Priam , king of Troy heir , to inherit Helen , wife of Menelaus , king of Sparta ; she was seduced by Paris Helenus , Trojan prophet , son of Priam Helicon , mountain in middle Greece sacred to the ...
... Priam and Hecuba Hecuba , wife of Priam , king of Troy heir , to inherit Helen , wife of Menelaus , king of Sparta ; she was seduced by Paris Helenus , Trojan prophet , son of Priam Helicon , mountain in middle Greece sacred to 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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