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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... blessed , By gifts to heaven his gratitude expressed ; Culled sheafs , to Ceres ; to Lyaeus , wine ; To Pan and Pales , offered sheep and kine ; And fat of olives to Minerva's shrine . Beginning from the rural gods , his hand Was ...
... blessed , By gifts to heaven his gratitude expressed ; Culled sheafs , to Ceres ; to Lyaeus , wine ; To Pan and Pales , offered sheep and kine ; And fat of olives to Minerva's shrine . Beginning from the rural gods , his hand Was ...
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... blessed ; And blessed he might have been with her alone , But oh ! how much more happy , had he none ! She was his care , his hope , and his delight , Most in his thought , and ever in his sight : Next , nay beyond his life , he held ...
... blessed ; And blessed he might have been with her alone , But oh ! how much more happy , had he none ! She was his care , his hope , and his delight , Most in his thought , and ever in his sight : Next , nay beyond his life , he held ...
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... Blessed Virgin was blown up only to land exactly in place . 1. 65. rescued Ireland . Cromwell reconquered Ireland in 1649 and 1650 . 11. 66-7 . treacherous Scotland ... blessed that fate . Cromwell conquered Scotland and united it with ...
... Blessed Virgin was blown up only to land exactly in place . 1. 65. rescued Ireland . Cromwell reconquered Ireland in 1649 and 1650 . 11. 66-7 . treacherous Scotland ... blessed that fate . Cromwell conquered Scotland and united it with ...
Contents
To John Hoddesdon on his Divine Epigrams I | 1 |
Astraea Redux | 9 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 177 |
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