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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1682

Originally published
  
1682

Publisher
  
Jacob Tonson

Genre
  
Religious poem

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Author
  
John Dryden

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.

Excerpt

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

Religio Laici Wikipedia


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