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Genre/Form: | Essay essays Criticism, interpretation, etc Essays Essais |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Dryden, John, 1631-1700. Essays of John Dryden. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1900 (OCoLC)569043114 |
Named Person: | Virgil.; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Virgil. |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Dryden; W P Ker |
OCLC Number: | 2834862 |
Notes: | "Collection of Dryden's principal essays on literary subjects, with a short commentary, and an introduction intended to explain his position as a critic"--Preface |
Description: | 2 volumes ; 20 cm |
Contents: | [v.1]. Introduction -- List of Dryden's works -- Epistle dedicatory of the rival ladies (1664) -- Preface to Annus Mirabillis (1667) -- Of dramatic poesy, an essay (1668) -- Prologue to Secret Love or the Maiden Queen (1668) -- Defence of an essay of dramatic poesy (1668) -- Preface to An Evening's Love or The Mock Astrologer (1671) -- Of heroic plays, an essay (1672) -- Epilogue to the second part of the Conquest of Granada (1672) -- Defence of the epilogue (1672) -- The author's apology for heroic poetry and poetic license (1677) -- Preface to All for Love (1678) -- Preface to Troilus and Cressida, containing the grounds of criticism in tragedy (1679) -- Preface to Ovid's Epistles (1680) -- Dedication of the Spanish Friar (1681) -- Preface to Sylvæ (The second miscellany) (1685) -- Preface to Albion and Albanius (an opera) (1685) -- Notes. [v.2]. Dedication of Examen Poeticum (1693) -- A discourse concerning the original and progress of satire (1693) -- A parallel of poetry and painting (1695) -- Dedication of the Æneis (1697) -- Translation of Virgil : postscript (1697) -- Preface to the Fables (1700) -- Notes -- Appendix A: A short history of criticism, by the translation of St. Evremond (1685) -- Appendix B: Authorities, critical and historical. |
Responsibility: | selected and edited by W.P. Ker, M.A. |
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