{"product_id":"dryden-selected-poems-9781138137110","title":"Dryden: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Hammond\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDryden: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is drawn from Paul Hammond and David Hopkins's remarkable five-volume The Poems of John Dryden, and includes a generous selection of his most important work. The great satires, \u003cem\u003eMacFlecknoe \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAbsalom and Achitophel, \u003c\/em\u003e are included in full, as are his religious poems\u003cem\u003eReligio Laici\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Hind and the Panther\u003c\/em\u003e, along with a number of Dryden's translations from Horace, Ovid, Homer, and Chaucer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach poem is accompanied by a headnote, which gives details of composition, publication, and reception. The first-rate annotations provide information on matters of interpretation and give details of allusions that might prove baffling to contemporary readers. Some 300 years after his death, \u003cem\u003eDryden: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e will enable new generations of readers to discover the poet of whom Eliot wrote: 'we cannot fully enjoy or rightly estimate a hundred years of English poetry unless we fully enjoy Dryden'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45237282439319,"sku":"9781138137110","price":14551.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781138137110.webp?v=1769216104","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dryden-selected-poems-9781138137110","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}