Shop Categories
- Weber, Stu
- McDonald, Joyce
- Saint-Saens, Camille
- Nonfiction
- African Canadian
- Marine
- Massey, Sujata
- Abbey, Lynn
- Books on Cassette
- Current Events
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Geophysics
- Seychelles
- ( D )
- Largent, R. Karl
- Game Programming
- History & Price Guides
- Michaels, Barbara
- Fly Tying
- Confederacy
- Greene, Graham
- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United-Arab-Emirates & Yemen
- Asian
- Indigo Love
- Soucy, Gaetan
- Political Doctrines
- Crews, Donald
- Injury Prevention
- Baedeker
- Death & Dying
- Some of our other sites:
- Books
- Clothing, Shoes and Accessories
- Baby Clothes and Accessories
- Cosmetics, Beauty Products and Fragrances
- Cellphones, Call Plans and Accessories
- Video Games
- DVDs
- Electronics, Gadgets and Computers
- Health and Personal Care
- Home and Garden
- Home DIY
- Jewelry
- Magazines and Newspapers
- Music Downloads
- Musical Instruments
- Office Equipment and Supplies
- Software and Games
- Sporting Goods
- Toys and Games
- Watches
- UK Books
- UK Video Games
- UK Home and Garden
- UK Electronics, Gadgets and Computers
- UK Baby Clothes and Accessories
- UK Software and Games
- UK Sporting Goods
- UK Toys and Games
Books : Literature & Fiction : Poetry : Poets, A-Z : ( D )
-
Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race, is the hero in this archtypal story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, in which Virgil portrays human life in all its nobility and suffering. 6 cassettes.
-
Describes the legendary origin of the Roman nation.
-
What flocks of critics hover here to-day; As vultures wait on armies for their prey…\' (Excerpt from Prologue)
-
Volume IX contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Indian Emperour, Secret Love, and Sir Martin Mar-All.
-
1909. Edited by Charles W. Eliot. Contents: Introduction; Dedication of John Dryden; Books 1-12 of the Aeneis; Postscript.
-
This volume contains Dryden's 1684 translation of Louis Maimbourg's "The History of the League," a work relating to the religious wars of France in the preceding century, and which Dryden used as a commentary on the religious persecutions of his own time in England.
-
Dryden's last three years of published works begin with Alexander's Feast and end with Fables, his largest miscellany of poetical translations. Alexander's Feast, like the earlier Song for St. Cecilia's Day (Works, III), was commissioned by the Musical Society for performance at its annual tribute to sacred music. The Fables included selections from Homer, Ovid, Boccaccio, and Chaucer. Extensive and detailed notes to these translations show readers how well Dryden succeeded in transmitting the styles and the very sounds of his originals. Volume VII ends with a section of miscellaneous pieces published at other times, including Dryden's only known Latin work. 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.
-
This selection of Dryden's works is drawn from the full range of his poetry and prose and is arranged chronologically. Individual works, such as the famous satires MacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel , appear in their entirety. A number of Dryden's translations are also represented, including his full versions of Homer, Horace, and Ovid, and substantial selections from his translations of Virgil, Juvenal, and other classical writers. Keith Walker has provided a modernized text of the first editions with commentary on classical and contemporary references for the modern reader.
-
A leading English literary figure of the 17th century, John Dryden (1631-1700) wrote dramas and critical works, but his reputation stands on his mastery of verse. Included here are "Annus Mirabilis," "Absalom and Achitophel," "Mac Flecknoe," "Song from Marriage à la Mode," "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham," "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day," more.
-
Not So The Rest; For Several Mothers Bore To Godlike David, Several Sons Before. But Since Like Slaves His Bed They Did Ascend, No True Succession Could Their Seed Attend. Of All This Numerous Progeny Was None So Beautifull, So Brave As Absalon.
-
The Aeneid is the great epic of empire - Virgil's masterful reinterpretation of Homer, designed for a new age of Roman domination. John Dryden, the poet laureate of the later 17th century, translated this epic for his own generation, and in doing so produced one of the most elegant, muscular and aphoristic translations ever written. A new introduction sheds light on the cultural and political context of Dryden's translation and comes to grips with the two-thousand year old controversy surrounding the hero, Aeneas' departure from the underworld in Aeneid 6. Unusually for a work of this kind, the text is presented in a reader-friendly format,with generous space for personal annotations and references. Robert Shorrock teaches Classics at Eton College, Windsor. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1999 and is the author of The Challenge of Epic: Allusive Engagement in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus (Leiden, 2001). He has published a number of articles on epic poetry and the Classical Tradition, and is co-editor of the journal Greece & Rome.
-
'Something greater than the Iliad is being brought to birth', wrote Virgil's contemporary Propertius, in Western literature's most famous flourish of advance publicity. The Aeneid was published after Virgil's death, and at once established itself as Rome's national poem. The hero Aeneas flees from the sack of Troy, and after much suffering carves out a foothold for the future Romans in Italy. While defining and celebrating what it means to be Roman, the Aeneid confronts, with a bleak pathos, the tragedy involved in Rome's destiny.
-
-
-
-
-
-
1700. In these ancient and modern fables from Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer, Mr. Dryden has written nothing which favors of immorality or profaneness, at least he was not conscious to his self of any such intention. He endeavored to choose such fables as contain in each of them some instructive moral, which leap foremost into sight. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English.
-
-
Poem, written in 1687, is an allegorical fable about Protestant and Catholic beliefs. In addition to the poem itself, volume includes author's preface, brief biography, and advertisement for "St. Peter's Complaint and other poems" by Robert Southwell.