Matthew Prior, An English Ballad: In answer to Mr. Despreaux's Pindaresque ode on the taking of Namure, "Despreaux" refers to
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux; in this edition the text of Despreaux's Ode sur la prise de Namur was given in
French on pages opposite Prior's verse;[1] published anonymously by
Jacob Tonson. Prior's friend, Sir William Trumbull, wrote to him, "I see no reason why the author should be ashamed of battering Boileau's poem and reducing it, any more than we the castle, since it is our honour that everything that concerns Namur be on our side."
Samuel Johnson would later write about this work: "The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has, in some parts, such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers, even among those who cannot compare it with the original."[5]
Richard Steele, printed anonymously with author identified as "a gentleman of the army", The Procession: A poem on Her Majesties funeral[1]
Edward Ward, Female Policy Detected; or, The Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open[1]
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^Paul, Harry Gilbert,
John Dennis: His Life and Criticism, p 175, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
^Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 52, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
^Mack, Maynard, Alexander Pope: A Life, Chapter 6, p 122, 1985 (but copyright 1986), first New York edition (also published simultaneously in London): W. W. Norton & Company "in association with Yale University Press / New Haven - London"
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