Selected Poems

by Dryden, John; Thomas, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780460872300
• ISBN10: 0460872303
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-03-01
• Publisher: Everymans Library

Summary

A leading English literary figure of the 17th century, John Dryden (1631-1700) wrote dramas and critical works, but his reputation stands on his mastery of verse. Included here are "Annus Mirabilis," "Absalom and Achitophel," "Mac Flecknoe," "Song from Marriage à la Mode, " "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham," "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day," more.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. viii
Introduction	p. ix
Dryden's Career	p. ix
The Text	p. xiii
Bibliography and Further Reading	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xx
Chronology	p. xxi
1649 Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings	p. 1
1659 Heroic Stanzas	p. 4
1660 Astraea Redux	p. 11
1661 To His Sacred Majesty	p. 20
1662 To Dr. Charleton	p. 24
1667 Annus Mirabilis	p. 26
1671 Prologues, Epilogues and Songs from the Conquest of Granada	p. 90
1676 Macflecknoe	p. 99
1677 Prologue and Epilogue to All for Love	p. 106
1680 The Prologue at Oxford, 1680	p. 109
1681 The Epilogue Spoken to the King at Oxford	p. 110
Absalom and Achitophel	p. 111
1682 Prologue and Epilogue to the Unhappy Favourite	p. 142
The Medal	p. 145
Prologues to the Duke and Duchess of York	p. 159
Religio Laici	p. 162
1684 to the Earl of Roscommon	p. 186
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	p. 189
1685 Translations from Lucretius, De Rerum Natura	p. 190
From the Third Book: Against the Fear of Death	p. 190
From the Fourth Book: Concerning the Nature of Love	p. 198
Translations from Horace	p. 207
Book 1, Ode 3	p. 207
Book 1, Ode 9	p. 208
Book 3, Ode 29	p. 210
To the Pious Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew	p. 214
1687 the Hind and the Panther	p. 220
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687	p. 292
1688 Lines on Milton	p. 295
1692 Eleonora	p. 296
From the Satires of Juvenal and Persius	p. 311
The First Satire of Juvenal	p. 312
The Third Satire of Juvenal	p. 321
The First Satire of Persius	p. 337
1694 To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve	p. 349
To Sir Godfrey Kneller	p. 352
1696 An Ode, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell	p. 357
1697 from the Works of Virgil	p. 359
From Aeneis 1: The Tempest	p. 359
From Aeneis 5: The Funeral Sports	p. 360
From Aeneis 12: The Combat of Turnus and Aeneas	p. 369
From Georgics 2: The Country	p. 378
From Georgics 3: The Battle of the Bulls	p. 383
From Georgics 3: The Plague	p. 384
From Georgics 4: The Labour of the Bees	p. 387
Alexander's Feast	p. 391
1698 Lines on Tonson	p. 397
1700 from Fables Ancient and Modern	p. 398
Preface	p. 398
To the Duchess of Ormonde	p. 420
To My Honoured Kinsman, John Driden	p. 424
Baucis and Philemon, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses	p. 430
The First Book of Homer's Ilias	p. 436
The Cock and the Fox; or, the Tale of the Nun's Priest, from Chaucer	p. 458
The Wife of Bath Her Tale	p. 479
The Character of a Good Parson, Imitated from Chaucer and Enlarged	p. 494
Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace	p. 498
The Secular Masque	p. 515
Notes	p. 519
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