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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 821.4 EAN: 9780192840776 ISBN: 0192840770 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 992 Publication Date: April 03, 2003 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: John Dryden (1631-1700) was the leading writer of his day and a major cultural spokesman following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. His work includes political poems, satire, religious apologias, translations, critical essays and plays. This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Dryden's poetry and prose--all the major poems in full, literary criticism, and translations--to give the essence of his work and thinking. The collection includes the poems, MacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel as well as Dryden's classical translations; his versions of Homer, Horace, and Ovid are reproduced in full. There are also substantial selections from Dryden's Virgil, Juvenal, and other classical writers. Fables, Ancient and Modern, taken from Chaucer, Ovid, Boccaccio, and Homer, his last and possibly greatest work, also appears in full. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Amazing readingI love this book. Dryden finds the way to write about really complicated topics in a way that is very clear (and clever). Rating: - Restoring DrydenJohn Dryden is one of those poets who everyone respects and nobody reads. His public poetry often seems out of place to modern readers as he bashes his now obscure enemies and recalls long since forgotten political events. Yet Dryden was the leading figure in British literature for a number of decades. There's a reason for this. He was the master of the heroic couplet and few figures were more influential in taking literature to the common readers. The Oxford World's Classics edition ... Read More Rating: - Great Poetry, Mediocre EditingThe blurb's claim that this edition includes all of Dryden's major original poems is not quite true. "The Hind and the Panther", the long and very important poem which marked Dryden's conversion to Catholicism, has unaccountably been left out. This omission would have made this edition worthless if there were any other affordable editions of Dryden. An irritating feature of the editing is the relentless modernisation, which obscures the metre by dropping elision markers, and spoils the ... Read More 
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