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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX

Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX

Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works

By: John Dryden

For the first time since 1695, a complete text of De Arte Graphica as Dryden himself wrote it is available to readers. In all, Volume XX presents six pieces written during Dryden's final decade, each of them either requested by a friend or commissioned by a publisher. Two are translations, three introduce translations made by others, and the sixth introduces an original work by one of Dryden's friends. The most recent version of De Arte Graphica, Saintsbury's late nineteenth-century reissue of Scott's edition, based the text of the translated matter on an edition that was heavily revised by someone other than Dryden. In fact, only one of the pieces offered here, the brief Character of Saint-Evremond, has appeared complete in a twentieth-century edition. The commentary in this volume supplies biographical and bibliographical contexts for these pieces and draws attention to the views on history and historians, poetry and painting, Virgil and translation, which Dryden expresses in them. Many other volumes of prose, poetry, and plays are available in the California Edition of The Works of John Dryden.

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume I

Poems, 1649-1680

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume I

Poems, 1649-1680

By: John Dryden

This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from 1649 to 1680. 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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The Works of John Dryden, Volume II

Poems, 1681-1684

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume II

Poems, 1681-1684

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume II

Poems, 1681-1684

By: John Dryden

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Poems, 1681-1684

By: John Dryden

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. 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 p

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV

Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV

Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication

By: John Dryden

Kept women, comic clerics, and political schemers enliven the four plays in this volume of the California Dryden. Dryden asserted that The Kind Keeper was a moral play, dedicated to exposing the "crying sin" of keeping a mistress. The production was closed after three nights, but whether because of the play's success in moralizing, or in exposing, is hard to know.

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume IV

Poems, 1693-1696

By: John Dryden,Edward Niles Hooker,Hugh Thomas Swedenberg

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume IV

Poems, 1693-1696

By: John Dryden,Edward Niles Hooker,Hugh Thomas Swedenberg

This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from 1693 to 1696. Mostly these are translations of Roman poetry, specifically the satires of Juvenal and Persius, sections of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Amours, and Art of Love, passages from Homer and Virgil--as well as some elegies of contemporaries composed in his later years. Also included is Dryden's influential essay on the nature of satire entitled "A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire.

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WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN NOW 1ST C

By: John 1631-1700 Dryden

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By: John 1631-1700 Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume VII

Poems, 1697-1700

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume VII

Poems, 1697-1700

By: John Dryden

Dryden's last three years of published works begin with Alexander's Feast and end with Fables, his largest miscellany of poetical translations. Alexander's Feast, like the earlier Song for St. Cecilia's Day (Works, III), was commissioned by the Musical Society for performance at its annual tribute to sacred music. The Fables included selections from Homer, Ovid, Boccaccio, and Chaucer. Extensive and detailed notes to these translations show readers how well Dryden succeeded in transmitting the styles and the very sounds of his originals. Volume VII ends with a section of miscellaneous pieces published at other times, including Dryden's only known Latin work. The presentation of the writings in this volume, like that of the entire twenty-volume series, is a tribute not only to Dryden but also to the editors who have guided it through five decades. Dryden's last three years of published works begin with Alexander's Feast and end with Fables, his largest miscellany of poetical translations. Alexander's Feast, like the earlier Song for St. Cecilia's Day (Works, III),

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The Works of John Dryden

By: John Dryden

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By: John Dryden

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WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN NOW 1ST C

By: John 1631-1700 Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVIII

Prose: The History of the League, 1684

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVIII

Prose: The History of the League, 1684

By: John Dryden

This volume contains Dryden's 1684 translation of Louis Maimbourg's "The History of the League," a work relating to the religious wars of France in the preceding century, and which Dryden used as a commentary on the religious persecutions of his own time in England.

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume VI

Poems, The Works of Virgil in English 1697

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume VI

Poems, The Works of Virgil in English 1697

By: John Dryden

Volumes V and VI concern Dryden's most involved labor: the complete translation of Virgil into English. Volume VI contains books 7-12 of The Aeneid, as well as commentary and textual notes to the full works of Virgil translated in these two volumes.

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WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN NOW 1ST C

By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832 Ed

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By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832 Ed

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume V

Poems, 1697

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume V

Poems, 1697

By: John Dryden

Volumes V and VI concern Dryden's most involved labor: the complete translation of Virgil into English. Volume V contains The Pastorals and The Georgics in their entirety; the first six books of The Aeneid is contained as well. Volumes V and VI concern Dryden's most involved labor: the complete translation of Virgil into English. Volume V contains The Pastorals and The Georgics in their entirety; the first six books of The Aeneid is contained as well.

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume IV

Poems, 1693-1696

By: John Dryden

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Poems, 1693-1696

By: John Dryden

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WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN NOW 1ST C

By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832

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By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832

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WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN NOW 1ST C

By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832

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By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume X

Plays: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, An Evening's Love

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume X

Plays: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, An Evening's Love

By: John Dryden

Volume X contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, and An Evening's Love. Volume X contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, and An Evening's Love.

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WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN NOW 1ST C

By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832

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By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume VII

Poems, 1697-1700

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume VII

Poems, 1697-1700

By: John Dryden

This is the final volume in The Works of John Dryden and the last volume of poetry written by Dryden before he died in 1700.

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The Works of John Dryden; Volume XVI

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden; Volume XVI

By: John Dryden

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN NOW 1ST C

By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832

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By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XI

Plays: The Conquest of Granada, Part I and Part II; Marriage-à-la-Mode and The Assignation: Or, Love in a Nunnery

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XI

Plays: The Conquest of Granada, Part I and Part II; Marriage-à-la-Mode and The Assignation: Or, Love in a Nunnery

By: John Dryden

Volume XI contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: The Conquest of Granada, Marriage A-la-Mode, and The Assignation.

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV

Plays: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon

By: John Dryden

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Plays: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon

By: John Dryden

The plays of John Dryden.

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WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN NOW 1ST C

By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832

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By: John 1631-1700 Dryden,Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832

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John Dryden: Everyman Poetry

By: John Dryden

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John Dryden: Everyman Poetry

By: John Dryden

An elegant and witty writer, poet laureate from 1668, Dryden was on of the major dramatists, critics and poets of his age.

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1780223196

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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of

By: John Dryden

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1010746332

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DRAMATICK WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN

By: John 1631-1700 Dryden

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DRAMATICK WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN

By: John 1631-1700 Dryden

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WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN NOW 1ST C

By: John 1631-1700 Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI

Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI

Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim

By: John Dryden

In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatre-going public: a dramatic opera, a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and a number of appendages to an old comedy by John Fletcher, which was revived partly so that Dryden might have the author's third-night profits. He died that night, but his family received the money. The dramatic opera, King Arthur, benefited from a fine score by Henry Purcell and has remained in the operatic repertoire to this day. Cleomenes, the tragedy, was banned until Dryden was able to convince Queen Mary that it did not reflect any seditious sympathy with the exiled James II, after which it was successful. The fate of Love Triumphant, the tragicomedy, was different; possibly because of a growing swell of moral reform, the play was universally damned, even though its themes of incest and miscellaneous fornication had never brought rejection to Dryden in the past. The Secular Masque, Dryden's principal contribution to The Pilgrim by Fletcher, had undistinguished music, but its lively verse and broad review of the previous century kept the piece on the stage for the next fifty years, and in anthologies up to the present. In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatre-going public: a dramatic opera, a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and a number of appendages to an old comedy by John Fletcher, which was revived partly so that Dryden might have th

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVII

Prose, 1668-1691: An essay of Dramatick Poesie and Shorter Works

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVII

Prose, 1668-1691: An essay of Dramatick Poesie and Shorter Works

By: John Dryden

This collection of prose writing from the pen of Dryden dates from 1668 to 1691, and contains work that the editors describe as "a sampler of Dryden as biographer-historian, political commentator, religious controversialist, literary polemicist, literary theorist, and practical critic. Among the works contained here is his "Essay of Dramatick Poesie.

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume III

Poems, 1685-1692

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume III

Poems, 1685-1692

By: John Dryden

This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from1685 to 1692. 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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