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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... vows to have more vows to pay ! Oh happy age ! Oh times like those alone By fate reserved for great Augustus ' throne ! When the joint growth of arms and arts foreshow The world a monarch , and that monarch you . To His Sacred Majesty ...
... vows to have more vows to pay ! Oh happy age ! Oh times like those alone By fate reserved for great Augustus ' throne ! When the joint growth of arms and arts foreshow The world a monarch , and that monarch you . To His Sacred Majesty ...
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... vows prepare To seek a land that flies the searcher's care ; Nor can my rising towers your flight restrain , Nor my ... vows to plight , and plighted vows to break . When will your towers the height of Carthage know ? Or when your ...
... vows prepare To seek a land that flies the searcher's care ; Nor can my rising towers your flight restrain , Nor my ... vows to plight , and plighted vows to break . When will your towers the height of Carthage know ? Or when your ...
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... vows , but look , and confidently pay . Their gifts the parents to the temple bear ; The votive tables this inscription wear ; - ' Iphis , the man , has to the goddess paid The vows , that Iphis offered when a maid . ' Now when the star ...
... vows , but look , and confidently pay . Their gifts the parents to the temple bear ; The votive tables this inscription wear ; - ' Iphis , the man , has to the goddess paid The vows , that Iphis offered when a maid . ' Now when the star ...
Contents
To John Hoddesdon on his Divine Epigrams I | 1 |
Astraea Redux | 9 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 177 |
Copyright | |
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