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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Dryden's Career | |
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| The Text | |
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| Bibliography and Further Reading | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Chronology | |
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| 1649 Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings | |
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| 1659 Heroic Stanzas | |
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| 1660 Astraea Redux | |
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| 1661 To His Sacred Majesty | |
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| 1662 To Dr. Charleton | |
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| 1667 Annus Mirabilis | |
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| 1671 Prologues, Epilogues and Songs from the Conquest of Granada | |
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| 1676 Macflecknoe | |
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| 1677 Prologue and Epilogue to All for Love | |
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| 1680 The Prologue at Oxford, 1680 | |
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| 1681 The Epilogue Spoken to the King at Oxford | |
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| Absalom and Achitophel | |
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| 1682 Prologue and Epilogue to the Unhappy Favourite | |
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| The Medal | |
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| Prologues to the Duke and Duchess of York | |
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| Religio Laici | |
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| 1684 to the Earl of Roscommon | |
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| To the Memory of Mr. Oldham | |
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| 1685 Translations from Lucretius, De Rerum Natura | |
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| From the Third Book: Against the Fear of Death | |
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| From the Fourth Book: Concerning the Nature of Love | |
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| Translations from Horace | |
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| Book 1, Ode 3 | |
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| Book 1, Ode 9 | |
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| Book 3, Ode 29 | |
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| To the Pious Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew | |
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| 1687 the Hind and the Panther | |
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| A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 | |
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| 1688 Lines on Milton | |
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| 1692 Eleonora | |
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| From the Satires of Juvenal and Persius | |
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| The First Satire of Juvenal | |
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| The Third Satire of Juvenal | |
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| The First Satire of Persius | |
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| 1694 To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve | |
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| To Sir Godfrey Kneller | |
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| 1696 An Ode, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell | |
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| 1697 from the Works of Virgil | |
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| From Aeneis 1: The Tempest | |
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| From Aeneis 5: The Funeral Sports | |
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| From Aeneis 12: The Combat of Turnus and Aeneas | |
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| From Georgics 2: The Country | |
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| From Georgics 3: The Battle of the Bulls | |
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| From Georgics 3: The Plague | |
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| From Georgics 4: The Labour of the Bees | |
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| Alexander's Feast | |
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| 1698 Lines on Tonson | |
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| 1700 from Fables Ancient and Modern | |
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| Preface | |
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| To the Duchess of Ormonde | |
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| To My Honoured Kinsman, John Driden | |
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| Baucis and Philemon, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses | |
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| The First Book of Homer's Ilias | |
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| The Cock and the Fox; or, the Tale of the Nun's Priest, from Chaucer | |
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| The Wife of Bath Her Tale | |
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| The Character of a Good Parson, Imitated from Chaucer and Enlarged | |
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| Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace | |
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| The Secular Masque | |
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| Notes | |