John Dryden, 10. köideOxford University Press, 1987 - 967 pages Dryden'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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John Dryden Keith Walker. " Arms , arms ! " the double - formed with fury call , ° To wreak their brother's death . A medley flight Of bowls and jars , at first supply the fight . Once instruments of feasts , but now of fate ; Wine ...
John Dryden Keith Walker. " Arms , arms ! " the double - formed with fury call , ° To wreak their brother's death . A medley flight Of bowls and jars , at first supply the fight . Once instruments of feasts , but now of fate ; Wine ...
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... arms a coward vest , And he who shunned all honours gain the best ; And let me stand excluded from my right , Robbed of my kinsman's arms who first appeared in fight . Better for us at home he had remained , Had it been true the madness ...
... arms a coward vest , And he who shunned all honours gain the best ; And let me stand excluded from my right , Robbed of my kinsman's arms who first appeared in fight . Better for us at home he had remained , Had it been true the madness ...
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... arms I plead our cause , Urge the foul rape , and violated laws ; Accuse the foes as authors of the strife , Reproach the ravisher , demand the wife . Priam , Antenor , and the wiser few I moved ; but Paris and his lawless crew Scarce ...
... arms I plead our cause , Urge the foul rape , and violated laws ; Accuse the foes as authors of the strife , Reproach the ravisher , demand the wife . Priam , Antenor , and the wiser few I moved ; but Paris and his lawless crew Scarce ...
Contents
To John Hoddesdon on his Divine Epigrams I | 1 |
Annus Mirabilis | 23 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 177 |
Copyright | |
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneas Aeneid Aesacus 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 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