The Poems of John Dryden: 1686-1693Longman, 1995 - 492 páginas John Dryden was the greatest writer of Restoration England. These volumes are the third and fourth volumes in a five-volume edition of Dryden's poems and result from a complete reappraisal of the canon, text and context of his work. The modernised text has been prepared from a fresh examination of the early printed editions and takes account of the large number of manuscript copies which survived. These volumes cover the poems which Dryden published between 1686-1696. This was a decade which saw the completion of his work of Catholic apologetics, The Hindand the Panther, the major translations from Juvenal and Persius, and his return to the stage after the Revolution of 1688-9 deprived him of the laureateship. Throughout these two new volumes Dryden's language is glossed in unprecedented detail, revealing the poetic precision of his vocabulary. Together with volumes one and two they offer the most informative and accessible edition of Dryden's poetry and provide an invaluable resource for students of Restoratation culture. |
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... says Casaubon , which were plays invented by the Osci . Those fables , says Valerius Maximus ( out of Livy ) , were tempered with the Italian severity , and free from any note of infamy or obsceneness ; and , as an old com- mentator on ...
... says Scaliger , he is so obscure that he has 1880 got himself the name of Scotinus , a dark writer . Now , says Casaubon , ' tis a wonder to me that anything could be obscure to the divine wit of Scaliger , from which nothing could be ...
... says no more than truth ; the rest is almost all frivolous . For he says that Horace , being the son of a tax - gatherer ( or a collector , as we call it ) smells everywhere of the meanness of his birth and education : his of mankind ...
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To the Memory of Anne Killigrew | 3 |
To Sir George Etherege | 19 |
To Mr Henry Higden | 27 |
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