Everything about Annus Mirabilis Poem totally explained
At least two significant
poems in
English literature have shared the title
"Annus Mirabilis":
Dryden
Annus Mirabilis is a
poem written by
John Dryden and published in
1667. It commemorated
1665–
1666, the "year of miracles" of
London. In fact, the time had been one of great tragedy. Dryden wrote the poem while at
Charlton in
Wiltshire, where he went to escape one of the great events of the year: the
Great Plague of London.
The poem is written in
quatrains with an ABAB rhyming pattern; this form is sometimes called the heroic stanza. The first event of the miraculous year was the
Battle of Lowestoft fought by
English and
Dutch ships in 1665. The second is the
Four Days Battle of June 1666, and finally the victory of the
St. James's Day Battle a month later. The second part of the poem deals with the
Great Fire of London that ran from
September 2 –
September 7 1666. The miracle of the Fire was that London was saved, that the fire was stopped, and that the great king (
Charles II) would rebuild (for he already announced his plans to improve the streets of London and to begin great projects). Dryden's view is that these disasters were all averted, that
God had saved England from destruction, and that God had performed miracles for England.
The title of Dryden's poem is now sometimes used without capitalization,
annus mirabilis, to indicate a year of particularly notable events. When
Queen Elizabeth II called the 1992 fire at
Windsor Castle part of her
annus horribilis, she was knowingly evoking Dryden's poem.
Larkin
The phrase
"Annus Mirabilis" was also used by
Philip Larkin in 1967 as the title for one of his best known poems, regarding the onset of more relaxed sexual morals in
1960s Britain: There are 4 verses, the first reads:-
» Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three » (Which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the Chatterley ban » And the Beatles' first LP.Further Information
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