John Dryden 
The Works of John Dryden, Volume VII 
Poems, 1697-1700

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 title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2002.

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),

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Poems 1697-1699

Alexander’s Feast; or the Power of Musique. An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia’s Day

To Mr. Granville, on his Excellent Tragedy, call’d
Heroick Love

To my Friend, the Author [Peter Motteux]


FABLES ANCIENT AND MODERN; TRANSLATED INTO VERSE, FROM HOMER, OVID, BOCCACE, & CHAUCER: WITH ORIGINAL POEMS

To His Grace the Duke of Ormond

Preface

To Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond

Palamon and Arcite: or, The Knight’s Tale From Chaucer. In Three Books

To My Honour’d Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire

Meleager and Atalanta, Out of the Eighth Book of Ovid’s
Metamorphoses

Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace

Baucis and Philemon, Out of the Eighth Book of Ovid’s
Metamorphoses

Pygmalion and the Statue, Out of the Tenth Book of Ovid’s
Metamorphoses

Cinyras and Myrrha, Out of the Tenth Book of Ovid’s
Metamorphoses

The First Book of Homer’s
Ilias

The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, From Chaucer

Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace

Ceyx and Alcyone, Out of the Tenth Book of Ovid’s
Metamorphoses

The Flower and the Leaf; Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision

The Twelfth Book of Ovid his
Metamorphoses, Wholly Translated

The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, From Ovid’s
Metamorphoses Book XIII

The Wife of Bath Her Tale

Of the Pythagorean Philosophy From Ovid’s
Metamorphoses Book XV

The Character of a Good Parson; Imitated from Chaucer, and Inlarg’d

The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady, Who dy’d at Bath, and is there Interr’d

Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace


POSTHUMOUS PIECES AND MISCELLANY

From
Covent Garden Drollery, 1672

Prologue to Julius Ceasar

Epitaphs

In Obitum Johannis Smithii

On the Monument of the Marquis of Winchester

Epitaph of Sir Palmes Fairborne

Upon Young Mr. Rogers of Gloucestershire

Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Paston of Barningham in Norfolk

Epitaph on Erasmus Lawton

Impromtus

Epigram on Jacob Tonson

Lines to Mrs. Elizabeth Creed

From
A New Collection of Poems, 1701

The Fair Stranger

From
Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part, 1704

On the Death of Amyntas: A Pastoral Elegy

A Song (‘Fair, sweet and young’)

From
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 1717

AEsacus Transform’d into a Cormorant


Commentary

Textual Notes

Appendixes

Index to the Commentary

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John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. Vinton A. Dearing was Professor of English and Computer Applications in Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.