Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781724490773
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Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel is "generally acknowledged as finest political satire in the English language."It is also described as an allegory regarding contemporary political events, and a mock heroic narrative. On the title page, Dryden himself describes it simply as "a poem." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author: John Dryden
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Richard Janeway
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429656998
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Published in 1975, Drydenia: On Absalom and Achitophel is a collection of poetry including A Key to... Absalom & Achitophel (Nesse); Azaria and Hushai, a Poem (Pordage); The Medal Revers’d (Pordage); The Medal of John Bayes (Shadwell); Satyr to his Muse (Shadwell); The Tory Poets: a Satyr (Anonymous); Poeta de Tristibus: or, the Poet’s Complaint (Anonymous); Directions to Fame,... (Anonymous).
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: John Dryden
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Author: K. Kuchenbächer
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Dryden
Publisher: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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Author: John Dryden
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: John Dryden
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192840776
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Dryden's poetry and prose - all the major poems in full, literary criticism, and translations - to give theessence of his work and thinking.John Dryden (1631-1700) was the leading writer of his day and a major cultural spokesman following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. His work includes political poems, satire, religious apologias, translations, critical essays and plays. This anthology includes all the major poems such asMacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel as well as Dryden's classical translations; his versions of Homer, Horace, and Ovid are reproduced in full. There are also substantial selections from Dryden's Virgil, Juvenal, and other classical writers. Fables, Ancient and Modern, taken from Chaucer, Ovid,Boccaccio, and Homer, his last and possibly greatest work, also appears in full.
