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Total number of records: 535

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Books and printed items493
Indexes40
Archives2

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Brotherton Collection403
English Literature369
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse42
Herbert Read Collection8
Ripon Cathedral4
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1

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english poetry25
classical poetry11
drama8
operas8
poetry7
authors, latin4
cantatas, secular4
country life4
pastoral poetry, latin4
satire4

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Great Britain11
Greece6
Rome6
Granada (Kingdom)4
London (England)2
England1
Grenada1
Stonehenge (England)1

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Dryden, John (1631-1700)436
Dryden, John210
Dryden, John, 1631-170064
Virgil36
Plutarch33
Tonson, Jacob28
Congreve, William (1670-1729)27
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D)27
Publius Ovidus Naso27
Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)27

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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"

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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