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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... labour in the writer . On the other side , Virgil speaks not so often to us in the person of another , like Ovid , but in his own ; he relates almost all things as from himself , and thereby gains more liberty than the other to express ...
... labour in the writer . On the other side , Virgil speaks not so often to us in the person of another , like Ovid , but in his own ; he relates almost all things as from himself , and thereby gains more liberty than the other to express ...
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... labour of one poet . For a play is still an imitation of nature . We know we are to be deceived , and we desire to be so . But no man ever was deceived but with a probability of truth , for who will suffer a gross lie to be fastened on ...
... labour of one poet . For a play is still an imitation of nature . We know we are to be deceived , and we desire to be so . But no man ever was deceived but with a probability of truth , for who will suffer a gross lie to be fastened on ...
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... labour , urged by need ? ) First Ceres taught , the ground with grain to sow , And armed with iron shares the crooked plough ; When now Dodonian oaks no more supplied ° Their mast , and trees their forest - fruit denied . Soon was his ...
... labour , urged by need ? ) First Ceres taught , the ground with grain to sow , And armed with iron shares the crooked plough ; When now Dodonian oaks no more supplied ° Their mast , and trees their forest - fruit denied . Soon was his ...
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