Author: John Dryden

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1972-01-01

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 0520905199

This collection of prose writing from the pen of Dryden dates from 1668 to 1691, and contains work that the editors describe as "a sampler of Dryden as biographer-historian, political commentator, religious controversialist, literary polemicist, literary theorist, and practical critic. Among the works contained here is his "Essay of Dramatick Poesie."