Volume XV contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, and Amphitryon.
The presentation of the writings in this volume, like that of the entire twenty-volume series, is a tribute not only to Dryden but also to the editors who have guided it through five decades.
The book explores the many ways in which the work of Dr. Pettigrew has fostered new developments in the field, with each chapter presenting both Dr. Pettigrew's landmark work as well as the most recent and relevant advances.
The notice there says: “Perform'd at Stationers-Hall, on MONDAY, November 22. 1697.” Alexander's Feast was subsequently performed on 9 December at Thomas Hickford's dancing school in Panton Street, and on 16 December in York Buildings ...
The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities ...
Volume VI contains books 7-12 of The Aeneid, as well as commentary and textual notes to the full works of Virgil translated in these two volumes.
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Reproduction of the original: The Works of John Dryden by Walter Scott
flowing water as speaking eloquence, and the secondary meditation toward the derivative character of just that theme, ... famous cliché of neoclassicism, the “O could I flow like thee” couplets from Denham's Cooper's Hill (see note 4).
The outstanding essays in this volume explore the interdependency of literature and history in seventeenth-century England. The relation of text to society is examined both as theory and as practice.
See Gerber's (1982) commentary on this ode for an account of the scholarship on water's preeminence, which, however, ignores Farenga. His citation of Snell on “monosemantica” is important here (pp. 9–10). 21. The second Olympian has a ...