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...author, Thomas Shadwell, was a man of position in the London of the Stuarts. He was a contemporary and opponent of Dryden, who made him the butt of his satire "MacFlecknoe" or "The Satire upon the True-Blue-Protestant Poet," an epithet which the readers of Shadwell's plays will consider inappropriate. Shadwell's tendency is to copy old models. "Bury Fair" is adapted from Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" and from Moliere's "Les Precieuses Ridicules." The poet draws from these comedies a satire on the people of his own time and the English court life...
Several rare first editions of Dryden's works from the Pearson Sale in London: "Astera Redux," 1660; "MacFlecknot," 1682; "Alexander's Feast," 1697; "Three Poems upon the Death of Oliver, Lord Protector of England," by Edmund Waller, John Dryden and Mr. Sprat and "Lachrymal Musarum," 1650; were recently presented to the University by A. McF. Davis '54, F. C. Halsey '68, and G. C. Beals '98. These books almost complete the Library's collection of first editions of Dryden. A first edition of John Donne: "The First Anniverserie," and "The Second Anniverserie," 1612, were purchased by the Library with...
English 50.--Dryden and the Transition from the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Century. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, at 9. Dr. Bernbaum...
...remaining volumes, though not yet arranged, will include the following works: Jonson's "Volpone"; Beaumont and Fletcher's "The Maid's Tragedy"; Webster's "Duchess of Malfe"; Middleton's "The Changeling"; Dryden's "All for Love"; Shelley's "Cenci"; Browning's "Blot on the Scutcheon"; Tennyson's "Becket"; Goethe's "Faust"; Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus"; Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," specially edited by Professor C. W. Bullock; "Letters" of Cicero and Pliny; Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"; Burn's "Tam O'Shanter"; Walton's "Complete Angler" and "Lives" of Donne and Herbert. "Autobiography of St. Augustine"; "Plutarch's "Lives...