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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 09 — John Dryden

The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 09

John Dryden

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 491 pages

This ninth volume collects John Dryden's political and historical poems from the English Restoration. It includes Heroic Stanzas on Oliver Cromwell, Astraea Redux, Annus Mirabilis, Absalom and Achitophel, and The Medal. They are worth hearing for their formal verse and their picture of Restoration politics and satire.

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Contents

  1. THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN,
  2. CONTENTS OF VOLUME NINTH.
  3. POEMS, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL.
  4. HEROIC STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF OLIVER CROMWELL.
  5. HEROIC STANZAS
  6. NOTES ON HEROIC STANZAS.
  7. ASTRÆA REDUX. A POEM.
  8. ASTRÆA REDUX.
  9. NOTES ON ASTRÆA REDUX.
  10. TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY, A PANEGYRIC ON HIS CORONATION.
  11. NOTES ON THE PANEGYRIC ON THE CORONATION.
  12. TO LORD CHANCELLOR HYDE. &c.
  13. SATIRE ON THE DUTCH.
  14. SATIRE ON THE DUTCH. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1662.
  15. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF YORK,
  16. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS, ON THE MEMORABLE VICTORY GAINED BY THE DUKE OVER THE HOLLANDERS, JUNE THE 3. 1665.
  17. NOTES ON THE PRECEDING POEM.
  18. ANNUS MIRABILIS; THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666, AN HISTORICAL POEM.
  19. TO THE METROPOLIS OF GREAT-BRITAIN, THE MOST RENOWNED AND LATE FLOURISHING CITY OF LONDON, IN ITS REPRESENTATIVES,
  20. AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENSUING POEM, IN A LETTER TO THE HON. SIR ROBERT HOWARD.[88]
  21. ANNUS MIRABILIS; THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666.
  22. NOTES ON ANNUS MIRABILIS.
  23. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. PART I.
  24. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.
  25. TO THE READER.
  26. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.
  27. NOTES ON ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.
  28. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. PART II.
  29. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. PART SECOND.
  30. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. PART SECOND.

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