Restoration & Augustan
John Dennis
John Dennis (1657–1734) was an English critic and dramatist, educated at Harrow and Cambridge. He wrote tragedies and comedies and a body of critical prose, and became notorious as the longtime antagonist of Alexander Pope, who satirised him in print.
His Miscellanies in Verse and Prose (1693) is an early volume of his verse: a Pindaric ode on William III, occasional and amatory pieces, burlesque fables with their morals, and versions of Horace, Boileau and Juvenal.
Poems (27)
- A Pindaric Ode on the King
- Vpon our Victory at Sea
- Wish for the Kings Safety, in the Summers Expedition of 1692
- To Flavia who fear'd she was too kind
- The Tenth Ode of the Second Book of Horace
- Fable in Burlesque: The Pig, the Goat, and the Sheep
- The Second Epistle of the first Book of Horace. To a Friend
- Fable: Of the Aunt and the Grashopper
- Fable: The Fox and the Grapes
- The Fourth Satyr of Boileau
- The Fifth Epistle of Monsieur Boileau, to Monsieur Guillerague, Secretary of the Kings Cabinet
- Fable: The Fox and the Crow
- Fable: The Wolf and the Horse
- To Mr. E. H. Physician and Poet
- To a Young Gentleman, who was blam'd for marrying Young
- Vpon the same Subject, in imitation of Anacreon's Manner
- Advice to Women, against Female Pride
- Vpon a Ladys Picture
- To a Painter Drawing a Lady's Picture
- Fable: The Lyon and the Ass a Hunting
- Some Moral Reflections concerning Vanity
- Fable: The Wolf and the Crane
- The Prosopoeia of Ostend
- Fable: Of the Cock and the Fox
- Fable: Of the Dunghill Cock
- Fable: Of the Wolf and the Fox
- Juvenals Eighth Satyre (fragment)