John Dryden Selected Writings

Steven N. Zwicker, Washington University, St Louis

Steven Zwicker was born in California and graduated from UCLA and Brown University. He is Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Washington University where he has directed many literary programmes, including the Literature and History Program; the Mellon Postdoctoral Program; the Mellon Summer Dissertation Seminar Program; and most recently the Vertical Seminar Program. He has also held visiting professorships at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, and the California Institute of Technology and was British Academy Visiting Lecturer at the Universities of Liverpool and Aberdeen.

Introduction
Note on the Text
Chronology
Heroique Stanzas (1659)
Astr?a Redux (1660)
To the Lady Castlemaine (c.1664)
Annus Mirabilis (1667)
An Essay of Dramatick Poesie? (1668)
Of Heroique Playes (1672)
Dryden to John Wilmot, earl of Rochester (April May 1673)
Marriage A-la-Mode (1673)
Mac Flecknoe (c.1676)
Dryden to Lord Latimer? (July 1677)
All for Love (1678)
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
The Medall (1682)
Religio Laici (1682)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684)
From Sylv? (1685)
Preface
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, The Latter Part of the Third Book (Against the Fear of Death)?
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura?, The Fourth Book (Concerning the Nature of Love)
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Book the Fifth
Horace, Odes? 1.9?
Horace, Odes 3.29
To the Pious Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew ?(1686)
Dryden to Sir George Etherege (February 1687)
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
A Song for St Cecilia s Day (1687)
Lines on Milton (1688)
Eleonora (1692)
From The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (1693)
Juvenal, Satire 3
The Fable of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea (1693)
Dryden to John Dennis (March 1693)
Dryden to Jacob Tonson (30 August 1693)
Dryden to William Walsh (12 December 1693)
To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve (1694)
To Sir Godfrey Kneller (1694)
Dryden to Jacob Tonson (29 October 1695)
An Ode, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell (1696)
The Life of Lucian (1696)
From The Works of Virgil (1697)
Pastoral 10
Georgics 4
?neis 6
Alexander s Feast (1697)
Dryden to Jacob Tonson (December 1697)
Lines on Tonson (c.1698)
Dryden to the duchess of Ormond (Winter 1698)
From Fables (1700)
Preface
To Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond
To My Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton
The Wife of Bath Her Tale from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Dryden to Mrs Elizabeth Steward (11 April 1700)
Prologue, Epilogue, and The Secular Masque for Fletcher s The Pilgrim (1700)
Commentary
Biographical Appendix
Index of Titles