The Hind and the Panther is a 1687 allegorical poem by John Dryden, structured in three parts. It symbolically represents the Roman Catholic Church as a hind and Anglicanism as a panther to explore theological arguments.
The Hind and the Panther is a three-part poem by John Dryden published in 1687. It uses animal allegories, with the Hind representing the Roman Catholic Church and the Panther representing Anglicanism, to discuss religious differences.
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| Back | A poem Three parts 1687 Various religious sects and identifies them with the emblems of specific animals The chief pair being the milk white Hind of the Roman church and the aggressive panther representing Anglicanism Second part; theological argument between The two churches The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts (1687) 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 (and no one has repeated it)."[1] |
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