Excerpt from John Dryden These four lectures on John Dryden of Trinity College were delivered, one a week, in the University Lecture Rooms, Cambridge, in October and November 1948. Though they are now printed as chapters in a little book with the addition of a few footnotes, they still remain lectures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.