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Title: [unknown]
Author: Dryden, John
Attribution: Dryden
Date(s): 1694 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On the suffering that jealousy causes lovers, abridged from a song in
Dryden's play "Love Triumphant"
Title: Dryden's ode on St Cecilias Day
Author: Dryden, John
Attribution: Dryden
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: On Alexander the Great's feast after his victory over Persia, demonstrating
the power of music to sway emotions before the time of St Cecilia; the
different speakers marked
Title: Epitaph on Mrs Margaret Paston, of Barningham in Norfolk
Author: Dryden, John
Attribution: Mr Dryden
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Epitaph on Margaret Paston, praising her virtues
Title: Prologue to The Prophetess [1690 May, Mr Dridens Prologue to The
Prophetesse. Verses Misc. Cupbd (?) (verso)].
Author: Dryden, John
Attribution: Mr Dryden
Date(s): 1690 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 11
Contents: Dryden's prologue to the musical play "The Prophetess" by Thomas Betterton,
alluding critically to current affairs, especially the expense of William
III's Irish wars; with the men away, the theatre will depend on the support of
women.
Title: On Dundee 1689
Author: Dryden, John
Attribution: Mr Dryden
Date(s): 1689 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: On John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee
Title: Line 511th Lib. 4th of Virgil's Georgicks, thus translated
Author: Dryden, John
Attribution: Dryden [Latin]
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Lament of a nightingale for the theft of her offspring, extracted from
Dryden's translation of Virgil's Georgics, IV. With the relevant Latin lines.
A new collection of poems : Being an extract from the State Poems, Mr. Dryden's, and other miscellanious poems
Dryden, John (1631-1700)
1721
Title-page (A1) is a cancel.
Title: On the conquest of Mexico
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1664
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Part of the prologue to Dryden and Howard's play "The Indian Queen", in which
the natives of Mexico realise that the Spanish conquest has brought their
idyllic paradisal life to an end
Title: Alexander's feast
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extracts from Dryden's poem on Alexander the Great's feast after his victory
over Persia, demonstrating the power of music to sway emotions before the time
of St Cecilia
Title: Virgil's first pastoral, or Tityrus and Meliboeus. [The Argument follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's first Pastoral, or Eclogue, in which the shepherd
Tityrus relates his good fortune in being able to remain on his native land as
a result of Maecenas's patronage.
Title: Second pastoral, or Alexis. [The Argument follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's second Pastoral, or Eclogue, in which the shepherd
Corydon expresses his unrequited love for Alexis
Title: Third pastoral, or Palaemon. Menalcas, Dametas, Palaemon. [The Argument
follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's third Pastoral, or Eclogue, in which Palaemon judges
that the shepherds Menalcas and Damaetas both deserve the prize after
listening to their singing contest