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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... poem . But since you are to bear this persecution , I will at least give you the encouragement of a martyr , you could never suffer in a nobler cause . For I have chosen the most heroic subject which any poet could desire : I have taken ...
... poem . But since you are to bear this persecution , I will at least give you the encouragement of a martyr , you could never suffer in a nobler cause . For I have chosen the most heroic subject which any poet could desire : I have taken ...
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John Dryden Keith Walker. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL A POEM si propius stes te capiet magis . ° [ if you stand nearer it will attract you more ] TO THE READER It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem : some will think it needs ...
John Dryden Keith Walker. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL A POEM si propius stes te capiet magis . ° [ if you stand nearer it will attract you more ] TO THE READER It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem : some will think it needs ...
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... poem prefaced to Charleton's Chorea Gigantum ( 1663 ) , which was an answer to Inigo Jones's theory that Stonehenge was built by the Romans as a temple to the god Coelus ; Charleton held it to be the work of the Danes . Walter Charleton ...
... poem prefaced to Charleton's Chorea Gigantum ( 1663 ) , which was an answer to Inigo Jones's theory that Stonehenge was built by the Romans as a temple to the god Coelus ; Charleton held it to be the work of the Danes . Walter Charleton ...
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To John Hoddesdon on his Divine Epigrams I | 1 |
Astraea Redux | 9 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 177 |
Copyright | |
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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