| The Hind and the Panther | |
|---|---|
| by John Dryden | |
 Title page to the 1687 2nd edition | |
| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Religious poem, beast fable |
| Publisher | Jacob Tonson |
| Publication date | 1687 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Lines | 2,569 |
| Pages | 145 pp |
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 The Hind and the Panther at Wikisource | |
The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts (1687) is an allegory in heroic couplets by John Dryden. At some 2600 lines it is much the longest of Dryden's poems, translations excepted, and perhaps the most controversial. The critic Margaret Doody has called it "the great, the undeniable, sui generis poem of the Restoration era…It is its own kind of poem, it cannot be repeated (and no one has repeated it)."[1]
- ^ A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller (eds.) The Cambridge History of English Literature (Cambridge: University Press, 1933) vol. 8, p. 52; Margaret Anne Doody The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985) p. 80.