Product Description

These first two volumes in a four-volume edition of Dryden's poems are the result of a complete reappraisal of the canon, text and context of his work. The text has been prepared from a fresh examination of the early printed editions, and takes account of the large number of manuscript copies which survive. Two recently discovered poems are included here for the first time. Headnotes to each poem provide details of the poem's date, publication history, sources and contemporary reception. Detailed explanations are given of the controversies addressed in his political poems, and particular attention is paid to Dryden's translations from classical writers including Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Lucretius.

Volume I covers the poems of Dryden from 1649 to 1681.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2264382 in Books
• Published on: 1995-02-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 624 pages

Review

"Drydenian scholarship flourishes, and its crowning glories are the five volumes of the Poems edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins … [the footnotes} are a work of great editorial tact, and they not only satiate, but stimulate, one’s curiosity."

Matthew Reynolds, London Review of Books, July 2007

'this is an indispensable edition, providing just the resources for fuller understanding of a great genius.'  Times Literary Supplement