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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... Roman bodies , and just heaven thought good For this , the Emathian plains once more were strewed ° To fatten twice those fields with Roman blood . ° Then , after length of time , the labouring swains , Who turn the turfs of those ...
... Roman bodies , and just heaven thought good For this , the Emathian plains once more were strewed ° To fatten twice those fields with Roman blood . ° Then , after length of time , the labouring swains , Who turn the turfs of those ...
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... Roman general ; his fortunes began to decline at 45 , the age at which Cromwell's began to rise . 1. 33. He ... Romans consecrated captured arms . Livy , 1. 10 . 5 11. 105-8 . When pay . " The stars balk at , and reluctantly obey ...
... Roman general ; his fortunes began to decline at 45 , the age at which Cromwell's began to rise . 1. 33. He ... Romans consecrated captured arms . Livy , 1. 10 . 5 11. 105-8 . When pay . " The stars balk at , and reluctantly obey ...
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... Roman senator , who was called from the plough to be dictator of Rome ' ( D ) . 1. 167. points : periods . 379 1. 182. Berecyntian Attis : Ovid , Fasti 4. 221 ff . II . 182-5 . ' Tis ... Apennine : ' foolish verse of Nero which the poet ...
... Roman senator , who was called from the plough to be dictator of Rome ' ( D ) . 1. 167. points : periods . 379 1. 182. Berecyntian Attis : Ovid , Fasti 4. 221 ff . II . 182-5 . ' Tis ... Apennine : ' foolish verse of Nero which the poet ...
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To John Hoddesdon on his Divine Epigrams I | 1 |
Astraea Redux | 9 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 177 |
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