John Dryden / edited by Steven N. Zwicker.

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry and prose of John Dryden, the most important poet, dramatist, translator, and literary theorist of the later seventeenth century. He wrote across the tumultuous decades of po...

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Uniform Title:Works. Selections. 2020
21st-century Oxford authors.
Main Author: Dryden, John, 1631-1700 (Author)
Other Authors: Zwicker, Steven N. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:21st-century Oxford authors.
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Physical Description:xlix, 880 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: POEMS, PROSE, PLAYS, LETTERS
  • Heroique Stanzas (1659)
  • Astrcea Redux (1660)
  • To the Lady Castlemaine (c. 1664)
  • Annus Mirabilis (1667)
  • An Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1668)
  • Of Heroique Playes (1672)
  • Dryden to John Wilmot, earl of Rochester (April-May 1673)
  • Marriage A-la-Mode (1673)
  • Mac Flecknoe (c. 1676)
  • Dryden to Edward Osborne, Lord Latimer (July 1677)
  • All for Love (1678)
  • Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
  • The Medall (1682)
  • Religio Laid (1682)
  • To the Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684)
  • From Syhce (1685)
  • Preface
  • Lucretius, The Latter Part of the Third Book, Against the Fear of Death
  • Lucretius, The Fourth Book, Concerning the Nature of Love
  • Lucretius, From Book the Fifth
  • Horace, Odes 1.9
  • Horace, Odes 3.29
  • To the Pious Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew (1686)
  • Dryden to Sir George Etherege (February 1687)
  • The Hind and the Panther (1687)
  • A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1687)
  • Lines on Milton (1688)
  • Eleonora (1692)
  • From The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (1693)
  • Juvenal, Satire 3
  • From Examen Poeticum (1693)
  • Ovid, The Fable of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea
  • Dryden to John Dennis (March 1693?)
  • Dryden to Jacob Tonson (30 August 1693)
  • Dryden to William Walsh (12 December 1693)
  • To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve (1694)
  • To Sir Godfrey Kneller (1694)
  • Dryden to Jacob Tonson (29 October 1695)
  • An Ode, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell (1696)
  • The Life of Lucian (1696)
  • From The Works of Virgil (1697)
  • Pastoral 10
  • Georgics 4
  • Mneis 6
  • Alexander's Feast (1697)
  • Dryden to Jacob Tonson (December 1697)
  • Lines on Tonson (c. 1698)
  • Dryden to the duchess of Ormond (Winter 1698)
  • From Fables (1700)
  • Preface
  • To Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond
  • To My Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton
  • The Wife of Bath Her Tale
  • Dryden to Mrs Elizabeth Steward (11 April 1700)
  • Prologue, Epilogue, and The Secular Masque for Fletcher's The Pilgrim (1700).