Annus mirabilis (poem)
Annus Mirabilis , the year of miracles , is a poem by the English poet John Dryden from 1666 . Dryden wrote the poem in Charlton , Wiltshire , where he had fled the plague epidemic in London.
The poem deals with the Anglo-Dutch naval wars and the Great Fire of London .
It contains 1216 lines arranged in 304 quartets . Each quartet follows the rhyme scheme [abab].
Web links
- Text of the poem at online-literature.com
- Werner von Koppenfels, Friedhelm Kemp: Engl. And Americ. Poetry: Engl. Poetry: from Dryden to Tennyson. Verlag CHBeck, 2000, p. 2 ff