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Portrait of John Dryden by John Michael Wright c. 1688, NPG

The Works of John Dryden

Dramatic Works

The Rival Ladies (1664)

Complete Facsimile

The Indian Queen (1665)

The Indian Emperor (1667)

Complete Facsimile

Song. "Ah, fading joy!"

Secret-Love; or, The Maiden-Queen (1668)

Complete Facsimile

Song. Hidden Flame.

Sir Martin Mar-all; or, the Feign'd Innocence (1668)

Complete Facsimile

The Wild Gallant (1669)

Complete Facsimile

The Tempest; or, the Enchanted Island (1670)

Tyrannick Love; or, the Royal Martyr (1670)

Song. "Ah, how sweet it is to love!"

An Evening's Love; or, the Mock Astrologer (1671)

Song. "You charm'd me not with that fair face"

Song. "After the pangs of a desperate lover"

Song. "Calm was the even"

Almanzor and Almahide; or,
The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards (1672)

Marriage à la Mode (1673)

Song. "Why should a foolish marriage vow"

The Assignation; or, Love in a Nunnery (1673)

Amboyna (1673)

Aureng-Zebe (1676)

The State of Innocence and Fall of Man:
An Opera (wr. 1674; pub. 1677)

Digital Facsimile

All for Love; or, The World Well Lost (1678)

Complete Facsimile

Oedipus: A Tragedy (1679)

Complete Facsimile

Troilus and Cressida; or, Truth Found Too Late (1679)

Complete Facsimile

Song. "Can life be a blessing"

Limberham; or, The Kind Keeper (1680)

Complete Facsimile

A Song from the Italian. "By a dismal cypress lying"

The Spanish Fryar; or, The Double Discovery (1681)

Complete Facsimile

Complete Facsimile

Song. "Farewell, ungrateful traitor"

The Duke of Guise (1683)

Complete Facsimile

Albion and Albanius (1685)

Don Sebastian, King of Portugal (1690)

Complete Facsimile

Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias (1690)

Complete Facsimile

Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die

King Arthur; or, The British Worthy (1691)

Complete Facsimile

Song. "Your Hay it is Mow'd, and Your Corn is Reaped"

Cleomenes, The Spartan Hero (1692)

Complete Facsimile

Love Triumphant; or, Nature Will Prevail (1694)

Complete Facsimile

Contributions to Vanbrugh's adaptation
of Fletcher's The Pilgrim (1700)

Complete Dryden contributions

The Secular Masque

Prose

Of Dramatic Poesie, An Essay (1668)

Notes and Observations on "The Empress of Morocco" (1674)

Complete Facsimile

His Majesties Declaration Defended (1681)

The Vindication; or, The Parallel of the French Holy League,
and the English League and Covenant, &c. (1683)

A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire (1693)

Essays, Prefaces, and Dedications

Heads of an Answer to Rymer's Remarks (wr.1678, pub.1711)

Preface to Walsh's A Dialogue Concerning Women (1691)

"The Character of Polybius" from The History of Polybius (1693)

"A Parallel of Poetry and Painting" from De Arte Graphica (1695)

Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern (1700)

Poetry

Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell (1659)
from Three Poems Upon the Death of his Late Highnesse
Oliver, Lord Protector, &c. by Dryden, Waller, and Sprat.

Complete - Google Books

Complete - UVA

Astraea Redux (1660)

Complete

To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyric on His Coronation (1661)

Complete - Google Books

Complete - UVA

To My Lord Chancellor (1662)

Complete - Google Books

Complete - UVA

Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders (1667)

Complete - Google Books

Complete - UVA

[London Reborn]

Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

Complete - Google Books

Complete - UToronto

Complete - Jack Lynch, Rutgers

Complete - UVA

[Illustrated excerpts] - Georgetown College

[The Historical Context] - Georgetown College

The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel (1682)

Complete - Google Books

[Excerpt] - UToronto

The Medal: A Satire Against Sedition (1682)

Complete Facsimile - Google Books

Complete - Google Books

Complete - UVA

Mac Flecknoe: A Satire upon the
Trew-Blue-Protestant Poet T.S. (1682)

Complete Facsimile - Google Books

Complete - Google Books

Complete - Renascence Editions

Complete - Jack Lynch, Rutgers

Complete - UToronto

Religio Laici; Or, A Layman's Faith (1682)

Complete Facsimile - Google Books

Complete - Google Books

Complete - UVA

[Excerpts] - UToronto

[Excerpts] - Plattsburgh

Threnodia Augustalis: A Funeral Pindarique Poem,
Sacred to the Happy Memory of King Charles II (1685)

Complete - Google Books

Complete - UVA

The Hind and The Panther (1687)

Complete - Google Books

Complete - UVA

[Excerpts] - UToronto

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1687)

Complete - Google Books

Complete - UToronto

Complete - UVA

Britannia Rediviva: A Poem on the Birth of the Prince (1688)

Complete - Google Books

Complete - UVA

Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem (1692)

Complete Facsimile - Google Books

Complete - Google Books

Complete - Poemhunter

An Ode, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell (1696)

Complete Facsimile - University of Rochester

Complete - Google Books

Alexander's Feast (1697)

Complete - Google Books

Complete - Jack Lynch, Rutgers

Complete - UToronto

Fables Ancient and Modern (1700)
(Paraphrases and translations from Homer, Ovid, Boccaccio,
and Chaucer, as well as original poems by Dryden himself.)

Complete Facsimile of the 1700 Ed. - GB

Complete Facsimile of the 1713 Ed. - GB

[Preface] - VT

[Preface] - Harvard

[Chaucer's The Wife of Bath, Her Tale] - Harvard

[Anon. The Flower and the Leaf] - Harvard

Poems on Various Occasions (1701)

Poems on Various Personages

To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton (1663) - UToronto

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684) - UToronto

To the Earl of Roscommon, on his Excellent Essay, &c. (1684) - UVA

Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew (1686) - UPenn

Epigram on Milton (1688)

To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve on his Comedy, &c. (1694) - UToronto

Poetical Miscellanies Edited by Dryden

The First Part of Miscellany Poems (1684)

Complete Facsimile of 1702 3rd ed.

Complete Facsimile of 1716 4th ed.

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

Sylvae; or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies (1685)

Complete Facsimile of 1702 2nd ed.

Examen Poeticum; or, the Third Part of Poetical Miscellanies (1693)

Complete Facsimile of 1706 2nd ed.

Song to a Fair Young Lady Going out of Town in the Spring

Veni, Creator Spiritus

The Fourth Part of Poetical Miscellanies (1694)

Complete Facsimile of 1708 2nd ed.

To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, &c. (1694)

Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (1704)

Complete Facsimile

The Sixth Part of Miscellany Poems (1708)

Translations

The Lives of Plutarch, in 3 Volumes (1683)
[Dryden and other translators; Dryden general editor and
author of the prefatory "Life of Plutarch"]

Facsimile of 1711 Vol. I

The History of the League (1684)
[Dryden's translation of Louis Maimbourg's French original]

Dedication, Advertisement, Book III, Postscript

The Life of St. Francis Xavier (1688)
[Dryden's translation of Dominique Bouhours' French original]

The Satires of Juvenal (1693)
[The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulius Persius Flaccus.
Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden, And other eminent Hands.]

Complete Facsimile, 1713 Edition

Complete Facsimile, 1726 Edition

The Third Satire of Juvenal

The Art of Painting (1695)
[De Arte Graphica: The Art of Painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy,
with Remarks. Translated into English, with an Original Preface,
containing a Parallel between Painting and Poetry: By Mr. Dryden.]

Complete Facsimile of the 1716 edition

A Parallel of Poetry and Painting

The Works of Virgil, in 3 Volumes (1697)

5th Edition, 1721, Volume I

5th Edition, 1721, Volume II

5th Edition, 1721, Volume III

Books 1 and 4 of Virgil's Aeneis

Dryden's Letters

Letter to Elizabeth Steward, 1698 (autograph manuscript)

Letter to Elizabeth Steward, 1698/99 (manuscript copy)

Assorted letters

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