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	John Dryden, "MacFlecnoe," "Annus Mirabilus," Criticism
		"Annus Mirabilis" personifies London as a Queen in ways that strongly evoke the late Elizabeth I, but in the context of Dryden's imperial vision, she is courted now by merchant fleets who bring her jewels and other trade goods from the Empire's far-flung colonial "suitors."
		The rest of the poem develops by a pattern of mock praise of poetic vices wherein "success" is failure and the slightest deviation from the stultifying norm is a clear sign that somebody's got poetic talent.
		"Annus Mirabilis" salutes London upon her survival of the plague and the Great Fire (in 1666), looking back to the Civil War as a fatal flirtation with factionalism and forward to a time of imperial dominion over "the British ocean" and the new colonies of India and the rest of Asia.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng211/john_dryden_macflecnoe_.htm (1861 words)

	§5. "Annus Mirabilis". I. Dryden. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American ...
		That the husband provoked or requited the wife’s infirmities of mind or temper by infidelities is a conjecture resting on an assumption; for the assertion that “Dryden was a libertine” remains unproved.
		Annus Mirabilis, though not written in the heroic couplet with which Dryden had already familiarised himself in both dramatic and non-dramatic composition, offers unmistakable proof of the ease and self-confidence which by this time he had already acquired as a writer of verse.
		Like Gondibert, Annus Mirabilis was the fruit of exile; but, while part of the former was written at the Louvre, Dryden had been driven from London, by the great plague and the great fire commemorated in his poem to take refuge at his father-in-law’s country seat at Charlton in Wiltshire.
	www.bartleby.com /218/0105.html (1173 words)

	EN 3203 RSP/BT Poetry
		In reading a poem for its social and cultural context, we treat the poem's detail as metonymies from which to infer the life of the people dramatized in the poem.
		But when the poem allows his droning voice to be interrupted or overlaid with another voice, we recognize that one of his less attentive recruits is daydreaming, as if to provide an antiphonal drift in muted contrariness.
		The shift in voice remains uninflected, in correspondence to the bemused and reluctant tone of the civilian’s reverie.
	courses.nus.edu.sg /course/ellpatke/En3203/EN3203Poems.html (912 words)

	John Dryden - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The poem is an academic exercise, and it seems to be animated by an under-current of strong contumacious protest against the irregularities tolerated by the authorities.
		In itself the poem is a magnificent tribute to the memory of Cromwell.
		He had a windfall of 500 guineas from Lord Abingdon for a poem on the death of his wife in 1691, and he received liberal presents from his cousin John Driden and from the duke of Ormonde, but generally he was in considerable pecuniary straits.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Dryden (5224 words)

	Annus Mirabilis (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Annus Mirabilis is a poem written by John Dryden and published in 1667.
		Inasmuch as the poem's primary interest for contemporary readers is its discussion of the Great Fire, when Queen Elizabeth II called the fire of Windsor Castle part of her annus horribilis, she was knowingly evoking Dryden's poem.
		The title of Dryden's poem is sometimes used without capitalization, annus mirabilis, to indicate a year of particularly notable events.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_(poem) (342 words)

	Poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Poem Poem formats will be changed approximately every four weeks and students will be able to immerse themselves into a variety of different poems.
		Poem 'Annus Mirabilis' :: A poem by Philip Larkin :: PoetryConnection.
		A poem by Emma Lazarus is graven on a tablet within the pedestal on which the statue stands.
	www.waldorf-cation.com /poem.html (840 words)

	Dryden, John - MSN Encarta
		After the Restoration, however, Dryden became a Royalist and celebrated the return of King Charles II in two poems, Astraea Redux (1660) and Panegyric on the Coronation (1661).
		In his poem Annus Mirabilis (1667), Dryden wrote of the events in the “Wonderful Year” of 1666, chiefly of the English naval victory over the Dutch in July and of the Great Fire of London in September.
		Although Dryden had defended his adherence to Protestantism in the poem Religio Laici (1682), he became a Roman Catholic in 1685, and because James II, an avowed Roman Catholic, came to the throne in that year his motive was assumed to be self-interest.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568283/Dryden_John.html (661 words)

	Annus horribilis at AllExperts
		It is a pun on annus mirabilis meaning "year of wonders".
		Although cited by the Oxford English Dictionary as being in use as early as 1985, Queen Elizabeth II brought the phrase to prominence, in a speech to the Guildhall on 24 November 1992, marking the 40th anniversary of her Accession, in which she referred to the closing year as an "annus horribilis".
		She probably used the phrase in allusion to John Dryden's poem "Annus Mirabilis" about the events of 1666.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/an/annus_horribilis.htm (459 words)

	Annus mirabilis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Annus mirabilis is a Latin phrase meaning "wonderful year" or "year of wonders" (or "year of miracles").
		The annus mirabilis is often called the "miraculous year" in English, or in German, the "Wunderjahr" ("wonder-year").
		According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known written usage of the latin phrase "Annus Mirabilis" is as the title of a poem composed by English poet John Dryden about the events of 1666 C.E. The phrase "annus mirabilis" translates as "wonderful year" or "year of miracles".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Annus_mirabilis (430 words)

	ooBdoo
		His years at Westminster were not uneventful, and his first published poem, an elegy with a strong royalist feel on the death of his schoolmate Henry, Lord Hastings from smallpox, alludes to the execution of King Charles I, which took place on 30 January 1649.
		These poems suggest that Dryden was looking to court a possible patron, but he was to instead make a living in writing for publishers, not for the aristocracy, and thus ultimately for the reading public.
		In 1667, around the same time his dramatic career began, he published Annus Mirabilis, a lengthy historical poem which described the events of 1666; the English defeat of the Dutch naval fleet and the Great Fire of London.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=John_Dryden (2091 words)

	John Dryden
		The poem is an academic exercise, and it seems to be animated by an undercurrent of strong contumacious protest against the irregularities tolerated by the authorities.
		In itself the poem is a magnificent tribute to the memory of Cromwell.
		He had a windfall of 500 guineas from Lord Abingdon for a poem on the death of his wife in 1691, and he received liberal presents from his cousin John Driden and from the duke of Ormonde, but generally he was in considerable pecuniary straits.
	www.nndb.com /people/324/000085069 (5007 words)

	Annus Mirabilis (poem) - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Annus Mirabilis is a poem written by John Dryden and published in 1667.
		Inasmuch as the poem's primary interest for contemporary readers is its discussion of the Great Fire, when Queen Elizabeth II called the fire of Windsor Castle part of her annus horribilis, she was knowingly evoking Dryden's poem.
		The title of Dryden's poem is sometimes used without capitalization, annus mirabilis, to indicate a year of particularly notable events.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Annus_Mirabilis_%28poem%29 (325 words)

	Annus horribilis
		John Dryden used the term 'annus mirabilis' in the title of his epic poem, 'Annus Mirabilis: the year of wonders 1666'.
		The poem was published in 1667 and commemorates the English defeat of the Dutch naval fleet and the Great Fire of London.
		He may well have been harking back to the 1666 'annus mirabilis', rather than picking it up from the Guardian report or other uses of the phrase between 1985 and 1992.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/annus-horribilis.html (596 words)

	Barrow Street
		The poems of Stan Sanvel Rubin move with unobtrusive delicacy and deep grace through the mysteries of time and being.
		Like the physicist in her title poem, Christine Scanlon believes that "If the relationship holds/it radiates./If it endures a new second/it matters." Everything the poet's keen mind lights on becomes "a gentle apocalypse": theology, (auto)biography, science, Danny Kaye, grilled cheese sandwiches.
		These poems meditate in a timeless manner on the terrible NOT at the center of death, but they do so to new music, one that embodies sly humor, formal invention, and rhetorical bravado.
	www.barrowstreet.org /pressMain.html (1123 words)

	John Dryden information - Search.com
		His years at Westminster were not uneventful, and his first published poem, an elegy with a strong royalist feel on the death of his schoolmate Henry, Lord Hastings from smallpox, alludes to the execution of King Charles I, which took place on 30 January 1649.
		These poems suggest that Dryden was looking to court a possible patron, but he was to instead make a living in writing for publishers not for the aristocracy, and thus ultimately for the reading public.
		In the 18th century his poems were used as models by poets such as Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/John_Dryden (1751 words)

	John Dryden - MSN Encarta
		In his poem Annus Mirabilis (1667), Dryden wrote of the events in the “Wonderful Year”1666, chiefly of the English naval victory over the Dutch in July and of the Great Fire of London in September.
		His other great verse satires, all written in or about 1682, are The Medall; the second part of Absalom and Achitophel, written in collaboration with the poet and playwright Nahum Tate; and Mac Flecknoe, a vigorous attack on the English playwright Thomas Shadwell, which influenced Alexander Pope's mock-heroic poem Dunciad.
		Although Dryden had defended his adherence to Protestantism in the poem Religio Laici (1682), he became a Roman Catholic in 1685, presumably because James II, an avowed Roman Catholic, came to the throne in that year.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568283/John_Dryden.html (736 words)

	ENL 3230 S04 Class 9
		Recall that poem and the comparison between the political and literary realms of authority.
		Dryden's poem Annus Mirabilis was published in 1667, the same year as Paradise Lost.
		It is a historical poem -- in contrast to a epic poem -- that celebrates the naval battles fought in 1666 against the Dutch; it ends with a tribute to the King as the caring patriarch who comforts London after the great fire of the same year.
	chuma.cas.usf.edu /~runge/3230_class9.html (1504 words)

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	19326. Elizabeth II. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
		In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
		The Queen’s reference to John Dryden’s long poem, Annus Mirabilis (1667), was lost on much of the nation, producing headlines such as “Queen’s Bum Year” in the tabloid press.
		Dryden had described the events of 1666 a “year of marvels” which included the Great Fire of London; a few days before the Queen’s speech, which commemmorated her 40 years on the throne, a fire had gutted some of the State Apartments in Windsor Castle.
	www.bartleby.com /66/26/19326.html (181 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Poems of Dryden: Volume 4: Books: Paul Hammond,David Hopkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The poems of John Dryden is a four-volume edition of the poetry of John Dryden (1631-1700) resulting from a complete reappraisal of the canon, the text, and the context of his work.
		The annotation is particularly substantial for the most important poems and a headnote accompanies each one, giving details of its date, circumstances, publication history, sources and contemporary reception.
		Volumes One and Two (published in 1995) covered poems published between 1649 and 1685, including his historical poem Annus Mirabilis, his celebrated satires Mac Flecknoe, Absalom and Achitophel, and The Medal, and his sustained meditation on religious faith and authority, Religio Laici.
	www.amazon.ca /Poems-Dryden-4-Paul-Hammond/dp/0582423848 (749 words)

	The Poet of Political Incorrectness: Philip Larkin and the Cultural Revolution
		In the poetics of the Movement, after Eliot and Pound and the generation of Oxford dons practising and teaching poetry in the modernist vein, the freedom achieved after the break with the ideologies of the recent past led to a new seriousness and to everyday language which empasized the empiricism it aimed at.
		Larkin's poetry may thus be infected with the world of "tawdry desires" of the new age which he describes, or, according to Patricia Waugh, "Larkin's poems castigate the culture for its mood of 'lowered expectations', while critics castigated Larkin's poetry for similar effects arising out of his 'less-deceived' mentality".
		Moreover, irony and satire are being brought directly to the reader by the diction of the poem imitating the lightness of the Beatles tunes; the poem should be set to music.
	webdoc.sub.gwdg.de /edoc/ia/eese/artic23/neumann/4_2003.html (4549 words)

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		In the previous year he completed the long poem, Annus Mirabilis (1667), which celebrated the English fleet's two victories over the Dutch and London's survival of the Great Fire of 1666.
		Among Dryden's better-known poems are the political satire, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), and MacFlecknoe (1682), his mock-epic satire on Thomas Shadwell, the literary foe who later became Dryden's replacement as poet laureate.
		Dryden died in 1700 and was buried in Westminster Abbey between Chaucer and Abraham Cowley in the Poets' Corner.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=786 (491 words)

	The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		After his first occasional pieces for the new regime – poems on the Restoration and coronation of the king, and a celebration of the lord chancellor – Dryden married Lady Elizabeth Howard, Sir Robert’s sister, joined the newly formed Royal Society, and began to write for the theatre.
		By contrast, Annus Mirabilis – Dryden’s poem on the Anglo-Dutch wars and the Great Fire of London – seems a display of brilliant amateurism with a breathless variety of scenes: naval battles and the appetites of trade, a city laid low by fire and plague, the colors of heroism, the plangent notes of despair.
		The poem looks like a move to the side in Dryden’s career, a simpler, angrier enterprise suited to the personal attacks that followed the pseudonymous publication of Absalom and Achitophel and to the backlash against the crown’s triumphs over Exclusion.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=051122172X&ss=exc (2388 words)

	The Mediadrome - Words - Poems of the Week: Bastille Day
		Things changed in 1795 when he met Coleridge: the two were to work very closely together, particularly in their annus mirabilis which began in July 1797, discussing poetry, and writing what was to become the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, which was published in 1798.
		Coleridge was the youngest of ten children of a minister; his father died in 1781, and Col (as he was called) was sent to a charity school for children of the clergy.
		Later in life, he was very active in the anti-slavery movement, and wrote a number of poems on the topic and on the human rights of the slaves (the slave trade was abolished in Britain in 1807).
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/words_articles/poems_bastille_day.htm (1850 words)

	English 236 Discussion Questions
		In the poem's opening lines, Pope compares "this scene of man" to a wild "where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot" and a garden "tempting with forbidden fruit" (7-8).
		Although the speaker of the poem is clearly afraid of the tyger, it doesn't necessarily follow that the speaker's view of the tyger is correct or that we are supposed to adopt the speaker's view.
		Summarize the movement of the speaker's state of mind in the first four stanzas of the poem and describe the relationship between the speaker and nature.
	www-personal.umd.umich.edu /~jonsmith/courses/engl236/question.html (4344 words)

	The Life of John Dryden
		The year 1666 was eventful in English history, including both the naval war with the Dutch, and the Great Fire of London.
		This poem secured him the position of Poet Laureate on the death of William D'Avenant in 1668.
		This work, the title of which translates as "A Layman's Faith", was a long religious poem arguing Christianity over Deism, the Bible as the guide to salvation, and the Anglican Church over the Catholic Church.
	www.luminarium.org /eightlit/dryden/drydenbio.htm (1101 words)

	Poem - www.poem.dk/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Poem read at the Million Man March icon "The Rock Cries Out To Us Today" 1993 Clinton "Million Man March Poem".
		speaks to you of yourself, and recites to you the poem of your life; the whole poem entering into your brain like a dictionary endowed with life.
		Poem of the Day [Poetry ARCHIVES] AUDIO POEM OF THE DAY hear it "Mystic Barber of Selcuk" © 2003 by Gary Mex Glazner.
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	Books \| Summing up the universe
		John Dryden's poem "Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders", 1666, celebrated the Royal Navy's victory over the Dutch and the failure of the great fire of London to consume the entire city.
		Yet as significant as these events are, they pale in comparison to one of the true high points of human achievement that occurred during that same year: the 24-year-old Isaac Newton laid the foundations of calculus and the theory of gravity, and outlined his theory of light.
		The unknown 26-year-old patent clerk produced - in breathtaking succession - the special theory of relativity, the quantum theory of light and a convincing argument for the existence of atoms.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4634855-99945,00.html (831 words)

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