The Poems Of John Dryden: Volume Five 1697-1700 | Literature

This volume completes the five-volume Longman Annotated Poets Edition of the poems of John Dryden the major poet of Restoration England. It provides a modernized text along with full explanatory annotation. The poems include Dryden's spirited translation from Ovid Homer Chaucer and Boccaccio. This volume presents in newly-edited texts and with a substantial editorial commentary the complete non-dramatic poetry of John Dryden’s later years. It contains the full text of Dryden’s final collection Fables Ancient and Modern including its prose Dedication and Preface together with a number of other poems of the late 1690s and some posthumously published items. |The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Five 1697-1700 | Literature