Religio laici. Threnodia Augustalis. The hind and the panther. Britannia rediviva. Prologues and epilogues. Mack-Flecknoe
Author: John Dryden
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Published: 1808
Total Pages: 474
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Author: John Dryden
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Published: 1808
Total Pages: 474
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Published: 1808
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Anderson Winn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 0199372217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the guitar and the harpsichord, danced regularly, and took a connoisseur's interest in all the arts. In this comprehensive interdisciplinary biography, James Winn tells the story of Anne's life in new breadth and detail, and in unprecedented cultural context. Winn shows how poets, painters, and musicians used the works they made for Anne to send overt and covert political messages to the queen, the court, the church, and Parliament. Their works also illustrate the pathos of Anne's personal life: the loss of her mother when she was six, her troubled relations with her father and her sister (James II and Mary II), and her own doomed efforts to produce an heir. Her eighteen pregnancies produced only one child who lived past infancy; his death at the age of eleven, mourned by poets, was a blow from which Anne never fully recovered. Her close friendship with Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a topic of scabrous ballads and fictions, ended in bitter discord; the death of her husband in 1708 left her emotionally isolated; and the wrangling among her chief ministers hastened her death. Richly illustrated with visual and musical examples, Queen Anne draws on works by a wide array of artists-among them the composer George Frideric Handel, the poet Alexander Pope, the painter Godfrey Kneller, and the architect Christopher Wren-to shed new light on Anne's life and reign. This is the definitive biography of Queen Anne.
Author: Thomas Park
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Published: 1828
Total Pages: 346
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Published: 1832
Total Pages: 326
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Published: 1829
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tanya Caldwell
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780838754351
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Time to Begin Anew significantly extends our understanding of Dryden's Virgil, while at the same time providing a sophisticated account of the cultural and political currents of the 1690s."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 814
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Dryden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1979-07-25
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 0520021320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains Dryden's 1688 translation of Dominiques Bouhours "The Life of St. Francis Xavier," a sixteenth century Jesuit and missionary to the Far East.