TY - BOOK AU - Dryden,John AU - Walker,Keith TI - John Dryden, the major works T2 - Oxford world's classics SN - 0192840770 AV - PR3412 .W35 2003 U1 - 821.4 PY - 2003/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press N1 - Originally published in 1987; Includes bibliographical references; TOC; To John Hoddesdon on his Divine epigrams -- Heroic stanzas -- To Sir Robert Howard -- Astraea Redux -- To his sacred majesty -- To Dr. Charleton -- Prologue to The rival ladies -- Annus mirabilis -- An essay of dramatic poetry -- Prologues to Secret love -- Prologue and epilogue to Sir Martin Mar-all -- Prologue to The wild gallant revived -- Prologue and epilogue to The tempest -- Prologue and epilogue to Tyrannic love -- Prologue to the first part of The conquest of Granada -- Epilogue to The second part of The conquest of Granada -- Prologue and epilogue to Aureng-Zebe -- Epilogue to The man of mode -- MacFlecknoe -- Heads of an answer to Rymer -- Prologue to Oedipus -- Preface to Ovid's epistles -- Canace to Macareus -- Dido to Aeneas -- Prologue to The Spanish friar -- Epilogue to Mithridates -- Absalom and Achitophel -- From the second part fo Absalom and Achitophel -- The medal Prologue to the duchess on her return from Scotland -- Religio laici -- Ovid's Elegies. Book II. The nineteenth elegy -- Prologue to The university of Oxford [What Greece] -- Epilogue to Oxford [Oft has our poet] -- Prologue to The University of Oxford [Through actors] -- Prologue spoken at the opening of The new house -- To the memory of Mr. Oldham -- Preface to Sylvae -- Nisus and Euryalus -- Translations from Lucretius: The beginning of the first book -- The beginning of the second book -- The latter part of th third book -- The fourth book -- From the fifth book -- Daphnis -- A new song -- Song [Go tell Amynta] -- The third ode of the first book of Horace -- The ninth ode of the first book of Horace -- The twenty-ninth ode of the third book of Horace -- The second epode of Horace -- To Sir George Etherege -- To Anne Killigrew -- To Henry Higden -- A song for St. Cecilia's day, 1687 -- Prologue to Don Sebastian -- Prologue to The mistakes -- The lady's song -- To Mr Southerne -- Eleonora: a paragyric poem -- The sixth satire of Juvenal -- The tenth satire of Persius -- The first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Ovid's amours. Book I. Elegy 1 -- Ovid's Amours. Book I. Elegy 4 -- Ovid's Art of love, Book I -- The fable of Iphis and Ianthe -- The fable of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea -- A song to a fair young lady -- Prologue [Gallants, a bashful poet] -- Veni, creator spiritus -- Rondelay -- The last parting of Hector and Andromache -- To my dear friend Mr Congreve -- To Sir Godfrey Kneller -- An ode on the death of Mr Henry Purcell -- Virgil 's Georgics: Book I -- Book II -- Book III -- Book IV -- Postscript to the reader appended to the Aeneid -- Alexander's feast -- To Mr Motteux -- Fables ancient and modern: Preface -- To her grace the duchess of Ormonde -- Palamon and Arcite -- To my honoured kinsman John Driden -- Meleager and Atalanta -- Sigismonda and Guiscardo -- Baucis and Philemon -- Pygmalion and the statue -- Cinyras and Myrrha -- The first book of Homer's Iliad -- The cock and the fox -- Theodore and Honoria -- Ceyx and Alcyone -- The flower and the leaf -- The twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses -- The wife of Bath's tale -- Of the Pythagorean philosophy -- The character of a good parson -- The monument fo a fair maiden lady -- Cymon and Iphigenia -- The secular masque -- A song [Fair, sweet, and young] -- Aesacus transformed into a cormorant; English N2 - This volume brings together a combination of Dryden's poetry and prose - all the major poems in full, literary criticism, and translations - to give the essence of his work and thinking UR - https://www.worldcat.org/title/john-dryden-the-major-works/oclc/53091349&referer=brief_results ER -