John Dryden

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Chronology of Dryden’s Life

Chronology of his Times

Introduction

Note on the Texts and Selection

from Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. An Historical Poem

from Marriage A-la-Mode

from Aureng-Zebe

from Mac Flecknoe

from Absalom and Achitophel

from The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel

from Religio Laici, or A Layman’s Faith

To the Memory of Mr Oldham

from Sylvae, or The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies:

from Lucretius: The Beginning of the First Book

from Translation of the Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius: Against the Fear of Death

from Lucretius: The Fourth Book, Concerning the Nature of Love

Horace: Book 1, Ode 9

Horace: Book 3, Ode 29, Paraphrased in Pindaric Verse

A New Song

from To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew

from The Hind and the Panther, Part 1

A Song for St Cecilia’s Day, 1687

from Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem

from The Satires of Juvenal and Persius:

from The Sixth Satire of Juvenal

from The Tenth Satire of Juvenal

from To my Dear Friend, Mr Congreve, on his Comedy called The Double Dealer

Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell

from The Works of Virgil:

from The Second Book of the Georgics

from The Third Book of the Georgics

from The Fourth Book of the Georgics

from The Second Book of the Aeneis

from The Fourth Book of the Aeneis

from The Eighth Book of the Aeneis

from The Ninth Book of the Aeneis

Alexander’s Feast, or The Power of Music: An Ode in Honour of St Cecilia’s Day

from Fables Ancient and Modern:

from Palamon and Arcite, or The Knight's Tale, from Chaucer

from Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace

from Baucis and Philemon, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses

from Cinyras and Myrrha, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses

from The First Book of Homer's Ilias

from The Cock and the Fox, or The Tale of the Nun's Priest, from Chaucer

from Ceyx and Alcyone

from The Wife of Bath her Tale

from Of the Pythagorean Philosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book Fifteen

The Secular Masque

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Note on the Author and Editor

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An elegant and witty writer, poet laureate from 1668, Dryden was on of the major dramatists, critics and poets of his age.

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An elegant and witty writer, poet laureate from 1668, Dryden was on of the major dramatists, critics and poets of his age.

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