Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
Chronological Table of Dryden's Life and Publications Abbreviations
Bibliography
THE POEMS
Alexander's Feast
To Mr Granville
To Peter Motteux
Lines on Tonson
The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady
Fables Ancient and Modern
Dedication and Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern
To the Duchess of Ormonde
Palamon and Arcite (from Chaucer's The Knight's Tale)
To John Driden of Chesterton Meleager and Atalanta (from Ovid's Metamorphoses VIII)
Sigismonda and Guiscardo (from Boccaccio's Decameron)
Baucis and Philemon (from Ovid's Metamorphoses VIII)
Pygmalion and the Statue (from Ovid's Metamorphoses X)
Cinyras and Myrrha (from Ovid's Metamorphoses X)
The First Book of Homer's Ilias
The Cock and the Fox (from Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale)
Theodore and Honoria (from Boccaccio's Decameron)
Ceyx and Alcione (from Ovid's Metamorphoses XI)
The Flower and the Leaf (from the poem attributed to Chaucer)
The Twelfth Book of Ovid his Metamorphoses
The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses (from Ovid's Metamorphoses XIII)
The Wife of Bath her Tale (from Chaucer)
Of the Pythagorean Philosophy (from Ovid's Metamorphoses XV)
The Character of a Good Parson (from Chaucer)
Cymon and Iphigenia (from Boccaccio's Decameron)
[End of Fables Ancient and Modern]
Posthumously Printed Work
Prologue, Epilogue, Song and Secular Masque from The Pilgrim
On the Death of Amyntas
Ovid's Amours, Book I Elegy I
Ovid's Amours, Book I Elegy IV
On the Death of a Very Young Gentleman
Upon Young Mr Rogers of Gloucestershire
Song ('Fair, sweet and young, receive a prize')
Ovid's Art of Love, Book I
Epitaph on Mrs Margaret Paston
Aesacus Transformed into a Cormorant (from Ovid's Metamorphoses XI)
Lines to Mrs Creed
Epitaph on Erasmus Lawton
Appendix A. Contents of Fables Ancient and Modern
Appendix B. Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition
Index of Titles in Volume V
Index of First Lines in Volume V
Cumulative Index of Titles for Volumes I-V
Cumulative Index of First Lines for Volumes I-V
