{"product_id":"dryden-paul-hammond-9781405835459","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'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Hammond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1405835451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781405835459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.62w x 1.97d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Hammond","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44302277640447,"sku":"9781405835459","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7fb46296-e3a9-4f9f-becf-c60e2a9eaca5.jpg?v=1695160563","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dryden-paul-hammond-9781405835459","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}