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Title: Anti-Achitophel (1682)
Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden

Author: Elkanah Settle et al.

Editor: Harold Whitmore Jones

Release Date: June 6, 2006 [EBook #18517]

Language: English

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Introduction and each poem.]

_Anti-Achitophel_

(1682)

THREE VERSE REPLIES TO

_Absalom and Achitophel_ by JOHN DRYDEN

_Absalom Senior_ by Elkanah Settle
_Poetical Reflections_ by Anonymous
_Azaria and Hushai_ by Samuel Pordage

Facsimile Reproductions

Edited with an Introduction
by
HAROLD WHITMORE JONES

Gainesville, Florida
Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints
1961

SCHOLARS' FACSIMILES & REPRINTS
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Harry R. Warfel, General Editor

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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LIBRARY

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INTRODUCTION

English verse allegory, humorous or serious, political or moral, has
deep roots; a reprint such as the present is clearly no place for a
discussion of the subject at large:[1] it need only be recalled here
that to the age that produced _The Pilgrim's Progress_ the art form was
not new. Throughout his life Dryden had his enemies, Prior and Montague
in their satire of _The Hind and the Panther_, for example. The general
circumstances under which Dryden wrote _Absalom and Achitophel_,
familiar enough and easily accessible, are therefore recalled only
briefly below. Inf