A new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality. In his lifetime, John Dryden gained fame at the cost first of gossip and scandal and then of suspicion and scorn. He wrote to order, currying favor with the Crown and repeatedly savaging its enemies. Yet the finest works of his political and spiritual imagination- "Absalom and Achitophel" and "The Hind and the Panther"-develop the themes of envy, ambition, and misdeed in ways that far transcend their era. During the Glorious Revolution, Dryden fell from patronage and favor: he then transformed himself into perhaps the greatest of English translators, a superb interpreter of Virgil and Horace, Juvenal and Persius, Boccaccio and Chaucer. This edition contains a preface and annotations accompanying each poem, modernized spelling and punctuation, and an informative introduction and chronology. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

JOHN DRYDEN

Steven N. Zwicker

David Bywaters

History & Criticism

Penguin Publishing Group

Marriage and its discontents lie at the heart of Restoration comedy. In all four of the great plays gathered here, a married woman confronts her would-be seducer. Each dramatist, however, totally reinterprets the situation. Thomas Otway's The Soldier's Fortune converts adultery into political revenge. Nathaniel Lee's The Princess of Cleves offers a potent and perplexing portrait of a libertine in action at the sixteenth-century French court. John Dryden's Amphitryon, set in ancient Thebes, retells the story in which Jupiter lures the virtuous Alcmena into cuckolding her husband by a stratagem that throws into doubt the very nature of human identity. Thomas Southerne's The Wives' Excuse reinvents, for the new circumstances of the 1690s, the familiar Restoration plot of a wife spurred towards infidelity by her partner's failings. All of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation.

Four Restoration Marriage Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

Thomas Otway

Thomas Southerne

Nathaniel Lee

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

A scholarly edition of poems by John Dryden. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The Poems (|c OET |t Oxford English Texts)

British & Irish

Selected Poems (New Oxford English)

Poetry

Selected Poetry and Prose of John Dryden

Random House]

Of Dramatic Poesy and Other Critical Essays (Everyman Paperbacks) (v. 1)

Everyman Ltd

Contents: Marriage a-la-Mode (Dryden).- The Libertine (Shadwell).- The Rover, Parts 1 and 2 (Behn).- The Kind Keeper (Dryden).- The Orphan (Otway).- The Wives' Excuse (Southerne). Also includes introduction, notes, chronology, select bibliography, and plot summaries.

Libertine Plays of the Restoration (Everyman's Library)

Thomas Shadwell

Aphra, Behn

Dent

The leading English literary figure of the latter half of the 17th century, John Dryden (1631-1700) wrote dramas and critical works, but his reputation stands on his mastery of verse, in particular the heroic couplet. Encompassing political, religious, philosophic, and artistic issues, Dryden's poetry offers rich evidence of his social consciousness. "Annus Mirabilis," a celebration of the tumultuous events of 1666, casts the catastrophic effects of war, plague, and London's Great Fire as a providential gesture, from which the nation would arise, phoenix-like, to greater heights. Other selections in this volume include his great satires "Absalom and Achitophel" and "Mac Flecknoe," along with "Song from Marriage à la Mode," "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham," "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day," "Epigram on Milton," and "Alexander's Feast." Dover original selection of poems from standard texts. New Publisher's Note.

Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

Dover Publications

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer a passionate and accessible introduction to some of the greatest poets in history.John Dryden (1631-1700) was educated at Westminster School and Cambridge University and became the leading literary figure of the Restoration period. Poet, playwright, polemicist and critic, Dryden became Poet Laureate in 1668 and Historiographer Royal in 1670. He concluded his vast output with Fables Ancient and Modern (1700).

John Dryden : Poems Selected by Charles Tomlinson

Faber&Faber

Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq., Vol. 3 of 4: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Now First Collected With Explanatory Notes and Observations Also an Account of His Life and Writings (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq., Vol. 3 of 4: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Now First Collected With Explanatory Notes and Observations Also an Account of His Life and WritingsIT is with a poet, as with a man who defigns build, and is very exact, as he fuppofes, in cafting up the coft before-hand; but, generally fpeaking, he is miftaken in his account, and reckons thort in the expence he firft intended. He alters his mind as the work proceeds, and will have this or that'conveni once more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happened to me: I have built a houfe, where I intended but a lodge yet with better fuccefs than a certain nobleman, who, beginning with a dog-kennel, never lived to finith the palace he had contrived.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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