Fables ancient and modern / translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with original poems. By Mr. Dryden.
| Author/creator | Dryden, John |
| Format | Microform |
| Publication Info | London : J. Tonson, 1700. |
| Description | 36 unnumbered pages, 646, that is, 558 pages, 2 unnumbered pages. |
| Other author/creator | Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses. Selections. English. |
| Other author/creator | Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. |
| Other author/creator | Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. |
| Other author/creator | Homer. |
| Series | Library of English literature ; LEL 11096 Library of English literature ; LEL 11096. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Dedication. - The preface. - Poem to Her Grace the dutchess of Ormond, with the following story from Chaucer: Palamon and Arcite: or, The knight's tale. - To my honoured kinsman John Driden. - Meleager and Attalanta, out of Ovid's Metamorphoses. - Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace. - Bauris and Philemon; Pigmalion and the statue; Ciniras and Myrrha; out of Ovid's Metamorphoses. - The first book of Homer's Ilias. - The cock and the fox; or, The tale of the nun's priest, from Chaucer. - Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace. - Ceyxe and Alcyone, out of Ovid's Metamorphoses. - The flower and the leaf: or, The lady in the arbor. A vision out of Chaucer. - Alexander's feast: or, The power of musick. An ode in honour of St. Cecilia. - The twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses wholly translated. - The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. - The wife of Bath, her tale, from Chaucer. - Of the Pythagorean phylosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. - The character of a good parson imitated, from Chaucer, and enlarged. |
| Contents | - The monument of a fair maiden lady, who dy'd at the Bath, and is there interr'd. - Aymon and Iphegnia, from Boccace. - The knight's tale; The tale of the nun's priest; The floure and the leafe; The wife of Bathe's tale; as written by Chaucer. |
| General note | Detached from: The works of Mr. John Dryden. The third volume ... London, 1701. |
| General note | Page numbers 272-359 omitted. |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1970. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 11096) |
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| Joyner | Microforms B300 | ULTRAFICHE LEL 11096 | ✔ Available |