ABSTRACT

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.

part 1|29 pages

The Poems

chapter 1|16 pages

158 Alexander's Feast

chapter 2|3 pages

159 To Mr Granville

chapter 3|4 pages

160 To Peter Motteux

chapter 4|1 pages

161 Lines on Tonson

part 2|560 pages

Fables Ancient and Modern

chapter 7|9 pages

164 To the Duchess of Ormonde

chapter 8|88 pages

165 Palamon and Arcite

chapter 9|14 pages

166 To John Driden of Chesterton

chapter 11|28 pages

168 Sigismonda and Guiscardo

chapter 15|47 pages

172 The First Book of Homer's Ilias

chapter 16|34 pages

173 The Cock and the Fox

chapter 17|15 pages

174 Theodore and Honoria

chapter 19|22 pages

176 The Flower and the Leaf

chapter 23|20 pages

179 The Wife of Bath her Tale

chapter 25|9 pages

181 The Character of a Good Parson

chapter 26|24 pages

182 Cymon and Iphigenia

part 3|89 pages

Posthumously Printed Work

chapter 28|4 pages

184 On the Death of Amyntas

chapter 29|3 pages

185 Ovid's Amours, Book I Elegy I

chapter 30|4 pages

186 Ovid's Amours, Book I Elegy IV

chapter 31|3 pages

187 On the Death of a Very Young Gentleman

chapter 34|48 pages

190 Ovid's Art of Love, Book I

chapter 35|2 pages

191 Epitaph on Mrs Margaret Paston

chapter 37|2 pages

193 Lines to Mrs Creed

chapter 38|1 pages

194 Epitaph on Erasmus Lawton