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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