Selected Poems: xxiv (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2002
by Dryden, John
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In his lifetime, John Dryden gained fame at the cost first of gossip and scandal and then of suspicion and scorn. He wrote to order, currying favor with the Crown and repeatedly savaging its enemies. Yet the finest works of his political and spiritual imagination- "Absalom and Achitophel" and "The Hind and the Panther"-develop the themes of envy, ambition, and misdeed in ways that far transcend their era. During the Glorious Revolution, Dryden fell from patronage and favor
With a preface and annotations accompanying each poem, modernized spelling and punctuation, and an informative introduction and chronology, this Penguin Classics edition is the only paperback volume of its kind available.
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- Title Selected Poems: xxiv (Penguin Classics)
- Author Dryden, John
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Latest Ed.
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 608
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-03-26
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR005497850
- ISBN 9780140439144 / 0140439145
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.97 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 2.46 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Cultural Region: British
- Dewey Decimal Code 821
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With a preface and annotations accompanying each poem, modernized spelling and punctuation, and an informative introduction and chronology, this Penguin Classics edition is the only paperback volume of its kind available.
