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050 0 0 _aPR3412
_b.W35 2003
082 0 4 _a821.4
_bJOH 1987
100 1 _aDryden, John,
_d1631-1700.
_914033
240 1 0 _aWorks.
245 1 0 _aJohn Dryden, the major works /
_cedited by Keith Walker.
246 1 8 _aDryden, the major works
246 3 0 _aMajor works
260 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2003.
300 _axviii, 967 p. ;
_c20 cm.
490 1 _aOxford world's classics
500 _aOriginally published in 1987
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _tTOC
_aTo 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.
520 _aThis 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.
526 _aEnglish
590 _aRokon Mahamud
700 1 _aWalker, Keith,
_d1936-
_914034
856 4 2 _3WorldCat details
_uhttps://www.worldcat.org/title/john-dryden-the-major-works/oclc/53091349&referer=brief_results
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