This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from 1681 to 1684. Along with the poems of Dryden and associated extensive commentaries and textual notes from the editors, this volume contains the dramatic prologues and epilogues Dryden wrote for the plays of other writers from this period of time.
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This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from 1681 to 1684. Along with the poems of Dryden and associated extensive commentaries and textual notes from the editors, this volume contains the dramatic prologues and epilogues Dryden wrote for the plays of other writers from this period of time.
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As New. 0520021185. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-488 pp----IMPORTANT: Interior text is clean, tight, and Unmarked Pages are intact and tight to the spine. --"1681, Dryden began, in the first part of 'Absalom and Achitophel', the series of satires in the rhymed couplet which placed him at the head of English satirical poets. 'Absalom and Achitophel' was the most important literary expression of the party which prevented the exclusion of the Duke of York from the succession to the throne. It is also one of the greatest of English satires, especially in its portraiture of the characters of the Duke of Monmouth and the Earl of Shaftesbury, both of whom the author has represented allegorically in the title of the poem. Then followed, in March, 1682, 'The Medal', an assault upon Shaftesbury. These poems occasioned many attacks on Dryden, and to one of them, the 'Medal of John Bayes' by Thomas Shadwell, Dryden replied, in October, 1682, by 'MacFlecknoe', a vigorous satire which dismissed Shadwell as the "last great prophet of tautology". In November, 1682, appeared the second part of 'Absalom and Achitophel', in which Nahum Tate collaborated. In 'Religio Laici' (1682) Dryden presented an argument for the faith of the Church of England, " From Catholic Encyclopedia--with a bonus offer--;