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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... youth in exile and distress ! Who me unfriended broughtst by wondrous ways , The kingdom of my fathers to possess : ' Be thou my judge , with what unwearied care I since have laboured for my people's good ; To bind the bruises of a ...
... youth in exile and distress ! Who me unfriended broughtst by wondrous ways , The kingdom of my fathers to possess : ' Be thou my judge , with what unwearied care I since have laboured for my people's good ; To bind the bruises of a ...
Page 301
... youth unsoured with sorrow bears , Ere withering time the taste destroys , With sickness and unwieldy years . For active sports , for pleasing rest , This is the time to be possessed ; The best is but in season best . VI The pointed ...
... youth unsoured with sorrow bears , Ere withering time the taste destroys , With sickness and unwieldy years . For active sports , for pleasing rest , This is the time to be possessed ; The best is but in season best . VI The pointed ...
Page 440
... youth enjoys the lovely maid . The Fable of Acis , Polyphemus , and Galatea From the Thirteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses Galatea relates the story Acis , the lovely youth , whose loss I mourn , From Faunus and the nymph Symaethis ...
... youth enjoys the lovely maid . The Fable of Acis , Polyphemus , and Galatea From the Thirteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses Galatea relates the story Acis , the lovely youth , whose loss I mourn , From Faunus and the nymph Symaethis ...
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