Absalom and Achitophel is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden. The poem exists in two parts. The first part, of 1681, is undoubtedly by Dryden. The second part, of 1682, was written by another hand, most likely Nahum Tate, except for a few passages—including attacks on Thomas Shadwell and Elkanah Settle, expressed as Og and Doeg—that Dryden wrote himself. The poem is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against King David as the basis for discussion of the background to the Monmouth Rebellion (1685), the Popish Plot (1678) and the Exclusion Crisis.
Dryden's Palamon and Arcite
John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer
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Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry
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Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
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Harvard Classics Volume 39 : Prefaces And Prologues
William Caxton, Golden Deer Classics, John Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Henrie Condell, Iohn Heminge, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
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Harvard Classics Volume 40 : English Poetry 1: Chaucer To Gray
Geoffrey Chaucer, Golden Deer Classics, Anonymous, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, George Gascoigne, Edward Dyer, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, George Peele, Robert Southwell, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Henry Constable, Edmund Spenser, William Habington, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Rowlands, Thomas Nashe, William Shakespeare, Robert Greene, Richard Barnfield, Thomas Campion, Robert Devereux, Henry Wotton, Edward de Vere, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Joshua Sylvester, William Alexander, Richard Corbet, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, William Drummond, George Wither, William Browne, Robert Herrick, Francis Quarles, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Francis Bacon, James Shirley, Thomas Carew, John Suckling, William D'Avenant, Richard Lovelace, Edmund Waller, William Cartwright, James Graham, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Jordan, Abraham Cowley, Alexander Brome, Andrew Marvell, Earl of Rochester, Charles Sedley, John Dryden, Matthew Prior, Isaac Watts, Lady Grisel Baillie, Joseph Addison, Allan Ramsay, John Gay, Henry Carey, Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Colley Cibber, James Thomson, Thomas Gray, George Bubb Dodington
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Harvard Classics Volume 18 : Modern English Drama
John Dryden, Golden Deer Classics, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning
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All for Love : Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
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The Collected Works of Geoffrey Chaucer : PergamonMedia
Geoffrey Chaucer, Haweis, John Dryden
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The Collected Works of Sir Walter Scott : PergamonMedia
Walter Scott, Thomas De Quincey, Magdalene de Lancey, Sara D. Jenkins, Count Anthony Hamilton, John Dryden
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