Dryden:Selected Poems

<p><em>Dryden: Selected Poems</em> 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 <em>MacFlecknoe </em>and <em>Absalom and Achitophel</em> are included in full as are his religious poems<em>Religio Laici</em> and <em>The Hind and the Panther</em> along with a number of Dryden's translations from Horace Ovid Homer and Chaucer. </p><p>Each 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 <em>Dryden: Selected Poems</em> 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'.</p>