A Poem In Defence Of The Church Of England In Opposition To The Hind And Panther Written By Mr John Dryden

Author : John Dryden
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ISBN 13 : 9781549526121
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Hind and the Panther written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1687, John Dryden published his masterwork on the relation between the Catholic Church and the Church of England, The Hind and the Panther, in effect a response to his celebrated Religio Laici (1682), a defense of the Church of England against the claims of Rome. A year before The Hind and the Panther was published, Dryden converted to the Roman Catholic Church and soon set to write his versed dialogue between a panther (the Church of England) and a hind, female deer (the Catholic Church). It is a fascinating read, ably displaying Dryden's peculiar form of poetic style, best described by Bonamy Dobr�e:"What Dryden aimed at was precision, finality of utterance, saying all that could be said upon a subject in the most concentrated way. His is the gift, or rather, one should say, the hard-won capacity, of expressing exactly what he means. But the hold which romantic poetry has upon the imagination is to a large degree due to the opposite quality, namely of formulating a deliberate ambiguity, of seeming to mean, of intending to mean even, a great deal more than it actually says: it seeks to set the imagination free in the fairyland of desire rather than to concentrate it on a definite object or idea." (Introduction to Poems, John Dryden, Everyman's Library No. 910)This is a great work of poetry, religion and politics, and should be part of every Kindle reader's library. Take a "Look Inside" to compare price and quality with other editions.