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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... . Cp. Sprat: 'thy mighty name / Wants not Addition of another's Beam; / . . . The Muses are made great by Thee, not thou by Them' (Three Poems 13; Works). 10. Since] And MS. 4 Yet 'tis our duty and our interest too, Such 4 heroic stanzas.
... Thou only to thy self wert great; / ... As bodyes, in the Dark and Night, / Have the same Colours, the same Red and White, / As in the open day and Light; / The Sun doth only show / That they are bright, not make them so' (15–16; Works) ...
... thou hadst prais'd the Fact; his Father Slain, / Thou call'dst but gently breathing of a Vein' (The Laureat [1687] ). Works notes that Sprat has similar images to D.'s: 'Thy Country wounded 'twas, and sick before, / Thy Wars and Armes ...
... thou shouldst wed the main, Heaven as a gage would cast some precious thing, And therefore doomed that Lawson should be slain. 80 21 Lawson amongst the foremost met his fate, Whom sea-green Sirens from the rocks lament; Thus as an ...
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