Dryden: Selected Poetry

by John Dryden, Gamini Salgado (Introduction), Douglas Grant (Editor)

Gathers songs, odes, satires, and selected essays by the seventeenth-century British poet

Genres: Poetry

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1946

About the author

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John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott called him "Glorious John."

Reviews

[Stephen Burridge · Rating 1 out of 5]

Seems a decent enough selection, and I was making my way through it. I hadn’t been well acquainted with Dryden, and he is a readable and interesting poet. However I was amazed to discover that my copy seems to be missing about 50 pages of “An Essay of Dramatick Poesy”, with what appears to be part of a translation of the Divine Comedy bound in instead.

This is a gross mistake on someone’s part. The book should never have been sold. I would advise anyone to get a different edition. There’s nothing special about the Introduction.