In one section, the speaker compares smoke from a cannon to the vapors rising off a monster's hide. 
In one section, the speaker compares smoke from a cannon to the vapors rising off a monster's hide.  In a letter to Sir Robert Howard, this work's author claimed that it was written in the style of Virgil, an assertion that fails to acknowledge the influence of William Davenant's Gondibert.  Stanza 155 introduces a "Digression concerning shipping and navigation" that leads into a section featuring the line "Who great in search of God and Nature grow," the "Apostrophe to the Royal Society."  Prefaced by "Verses to her Highness and Duchess" [of York], several of this work's 304 stanzas chronicle the Battle of Solebay, while a later section celebrates the work of Christopher Wren and the rebirth of London from a "chymic flame."  Taking as its subjects the Second Anglo-Dutch War and the Great Fire, for 10 points, identify this work, subtitled or The Year of Wonders, 1666, a poem by John Dryden.
In one section, the speaker compares smoke from a cannon to the vapors rising off a monster's hide.  
Annus Mirabilis