The Hind and the Panther

…the framework of the poem The Hind and the Panther (1687), and Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1880) derived many episodes from beast tales carried to the United States by African slaves. Animal Farm (1945), an antiutopian satire by George Orwell, is a modern adaptation…

…longest poem, the beast fable The Hind and the Panther (1687), he argued the case for his adopted church against the Church of England and the sects. His earlier Religio Laici (1682) had argued in eloquent couplets for the consolations of Anglicanism and against unbelievers, Protestant dissenters, and Roman Catholics.…

…basic issues of faith, and The Hind and the Panther (1687), in which an elaborate allegorical beast fable is deployed to trace the history of animosities between Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism. In the Glorious Revolution (1688) Dryden stayed loyal to the Catholicism to which he had converted a few years…

…John Dryden’s poem of “The Hind and Panther” (1687) revived the beast epic as a framework for theological debate. Bernard de Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees (first published 1705 as The Grumbling Hive; or, Knaves Turn’d Honest) illustrated the rapacious nature of humans in society through the age-old metaphor…