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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... crown , from treason's reach is free , If Jove and heaven can violated be ? ) The lesser gods that shared his prosperous state All suffered in the exiled thunderer's fate . ( The rabble now such freedom did enjoy , As winds at sea that ...
... crown , from treason's reach is free , If Jove and heaven can violated be ? ) The lesser gods that shared his prosperous state All suffered in the exiled thunderer's fate . ( The rabble now such freedom did enjoy , As winds at sea that ...
Page 179
... crown did wear ; A soil ungrateful to the tiller's care : Not so the rest ; for several mothers bore To godlike David several sons before . ° But since like slaves his bed they did ascend No true succession could their seed attend . Of ...
... crown did wear ; A soil ungrateful to the tiller's care : Not so the rest ; for several mothers bore To godlike David several sons before . ° But since like slaves his bed they did ascend No true succession could their seed attend . Of ...
Page 183
... crown , With virtues only proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle , that oppressed the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung , And heaven had wanted one immortal song . But wild ...
... crown , With virtues only proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle , that oppressed the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung , And heaven had wanted one immortal song . But wild ...
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