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Hind Panther Poem Repeated Parts Religious Sects Identifies

Front The Hind and the Panther
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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