Fables ancient and modern [[electronic resource] /] / translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems, by Mr. Dryden

• Autore: Dryden John <1631-1700.>
• Pubblicazione: London, : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., MDCC [1700]
• Descrizione fisica: [42], 646 [i.e. 558], [2] p
• Altri autori: Ovid <43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.> ChaucerGeoffrey <d. 1400.> BoccaccioGiovanni <1313-1375.> Homer
• Note generali: In verse.; Half title page reads : Mr. Dryden's fables.; "To His Grace the Duke of Ormond" signed: John Dryden.; Error in paging: p. 272-359 omitted.; Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- To Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormonde -- Palamon and Arcite ... from Chaucer -- To my honour'd kinsman John Driden -- Meleager and Atalanta ... Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace -- Baucis and Philemon ... Pygmalion and the statue ... Cinyras and myrrhas, The first book of Homer's Ilias -- The cock and the fox ... from Chaucer -- Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace -- Ceyx and Alcyone -- The flower and the leaf ... Mr. Dryden's ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day, 1697 -- The twelfth book of Ovid his Metamorphoses ... The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, ... The wife of Bath, her tale -- Of the Pythagorean philosophy ... The character of a good parson / imitated from Chaucer and inlarg'd -- The monument of a fair maiden lady ... Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace -- The knight's tale / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer -- The tale of the nun's priest / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer -- The floure and the leafe / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer -- The wife of Bathe's tale / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0014
• Titolo autorizzato: Fables ancient and modern
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996387021703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno