Language English Publication date 1682 Originally published 1682 Publisher Jacob Tonson | Genre Religious poem Media type Print (Hardback) Country United Kingdom | |
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Religio Laici, Or A Layman's Faith (1682) is a poem by John Dryden, published as a premise to his subsequent The Hind and the Panther (1687), a final outcome of his conversion to Roman Catholicism.
The poet argues for the credibility of the Christian religion and against Deism, and for the Anglican Church against that of Rome.
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These are the last couplets of the poem (vv. 451-455):
Thus have I made my own opinions clear: Yet neither praise expect, nor censure fear: And this unpolish'd, rugged verse, I chose; fittest for discourse, and nearest prose: For, while from sacred truth I do not swerve, Tom Sternhold's, or Tom Shadwell's rhymes will serve.References
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