The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Five: 1697-1700

✍ Scribed by Hammond, Paul(Editor)

Publisher: Routledge;Taylor and Francis
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 744
Series: Longman Annotated English Poets
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume completes the five-volume Longman Annotated Poets Edition of the poems of John Dryden, the major poet of Restoration England. It provides a modernized text along with full explanatory annotation. The poems include Dryden's spirited translation from Ovid, Homer, Chaucer, and Boccaccio.

This volume presents, in newly-edited texts and with a substantial editorial commentary, the complete non-dramatic poetry of John Dryden's later years. It contains the full text of Dryden's final collection,Fables Ancient and Modern, including its prose Dedication and Preface, together with a number of other poems of the late 1690s, and some posthumously published items.

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