{"product_id":"dryden-selected-poems","title":"Dryden:Selected Poems","description":"\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 Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54233561989464,"sku":"9781405835459","price":55.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781405835459_a1a7522d-63dd-4d13-9d27-5d2748ab3227.jpg?v=1777235426","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dryden-selected-poems","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}