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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821
EAN: 9780140439144
ISBN: 0140439145
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 592
Publication Date: 2002-03-26
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Product Release Date: 2002-03-26
Studio: Penguin Classics

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: he then transformed himself into perhaps the greatest of English translators, a superb interpreter of Virgil and Horace, Juvenal and Persius, Boccaccio and Chaucer.

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.