Dryden:Selected PoemsPaul Hammond, David Hopkins Routledge, 17 aug. 2020 - 888 sidor Dryden: Selected Poems is drawn from Paul Hammond and David Hopkins's remarkable five-volume The Poems of John Dryden, and includes a generous selection of his most important work. The great satires, MacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel, are included in full, as are his religious poemsReligio Laici and The Hind and the Panther, along with a number of Dryden's translations from Horace, Ovid, Homer, and Chaucer. Each poem is accompanied by a headnote, which gives details of composition, publication, and reception. The first-rate annotations provide information on matters of interpretation and give details of allusions that might prove baffling to contemporary readers. Some 300 years after his death, Dryden: Selected Poems will enable new generations of readers to discover the poet of whom Eliot wrote: 'we cannot fully enjoy or rightly estimate a hundred years of English poetry unless we fully enjoy Dryden'. |
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... Lives published, containing D.'s 'Life of Plutarch'. (Autumn) Soame's The Art of Poetry published, with revisions by D. (November) 'Epilogue to Constantine the Great' spoken. 'To the Earl of Roscommon' published in Roscommon's Essay on ...
... live; He seemed but to prevent some new success, As if above what triumphs earth could give. 34 His latest victories still thickest came, As near the centre motion does increase; Till he pressed down by his own weighty name Did like the ...
... live above his banishment. That sun which we beheld with cozened eyes Within the water, moved along the skies. How easy 'tis when Destiny proves kind With full-spread sails to run before the wind; 65 But those that 'gainst stiff gales ...
... live, they are like helots set A virtuous shame within us to beget: For by example most we sinned before, And glass-like, clearness mixed with frailty bore. But since reformed by what we did amiss, We by our sufferings learn to prize ...
... live, A voice before his entry did proclaim 265 Long-suffering, goodness, mercy in his name. Your power to justice doth submit your cause, Your goodness only is above the laws, Whose rigid letter while pronounced by you Is softer made ...