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'. |
Från bokens innehåll
Resultat 1-5 av 83
... thought to have had a hand in Mulgrave's An Essay upon Satire. (February) Ovid's Epistles published, with Preface and three translations by D. ( July) 'Prologue at Oxford' spoken. (November) The Spanish Friar performed at Dorset Garden ...
... thought see 'Horace: Odes III xxix' ll. 73–87n. Sprat says of Cromwell that 'Fortune did hang on thy Sword' (23). 31–2. Cromwell was 45 when he won the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, and 59 when he died. Pompey was 45 when he returned ...
... thought our sires, not with their own content, Had ere we came to age our portion spent. Nor could our nobles hope their bold attempt 20 7. This line was ridiculed by several of D.'s critics: in A Letter from a Gentleman to the ...
... thought him mad before' (ll. 34–40). With D.'s political viewpoint here contrast 'Heroic Stanzas' ll. 113–16. 119. alga] seaweed. strows] strews. 121. Portunus] the god of harbours (see Aen. v 241–3; Ovid, Fasti vi 545–8). 122. A lamb ...
... thought to determine health. crude] undigested (OED 3). 179. vizard ] mask. 181–2. Parliament was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653 and by Lambert in 1659. Legion is the devil in Luke viii 26–36. Once sacred house which when they entered in ...