Selections from Dryden: Poetry and Prose

Absalom and Achitophel action admiration Ancients ANNE KILLIGREW appear argument Aristotle audience beauty Ben Jonson betwixt blank verse cause characters comedy command compass Corneille Crites critics crowd curse dare David discourse drama Dryden Duke E. V. Lucas English Eugenius fame fate father favour Flecknoe Fletcher foes French give grace H. C. Beeching Heaven heroic heroic couplet honour Horace humour imitation Jebusites Jonson judge judgment kind king laws Lisideius live Lord Mac Flecknoe Muse nature Neander never numbers observed Ovid pains passion persons Pindaric plot poem poet poetry praise prince prose reason rebel rhyme rule satire scenes Sejanus sense serious plays Shadwell Shadwell's Shaftesbury Shakespeare Silent Woman soul speak stage sweet thee things thou thought throne Titus Oates tragedies true truth unity Virgil words writ writing ΙΟ