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The Hind and the Panther

The Hind and the Panther

The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts 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 ."


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“And doomed to death, though fated not to die.”

Pt. I, line 8.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)