The complete online text of The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 02 by John Dryden.

The English author John Dryden (1631-1700) is best known as a poet and critic. He also wrote almost 30 plays and was one of the great dramatists of his time. John Dryden was born on Aug. 9, 1631, in Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire, in the parsonage of All S...

After John Donne and John Milton, John Dryden was the greatest English poet of the seventeenth century. After William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, he was the greatest playwright. And he has no peer as a writer of prose, especially literary criticism, and...

After John Donne and John Milton, John Dryden was the greatest English poet of the seventeenth century. After William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, he was the greatest playwright. And he has no peer as a writer of prose, especially literary criticism, and...

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Volume 16. The Translations: Federico Garcia Lorca, Nicolas Guillen, and Jacques Roumain Edited with an introduction by Dellita Martin-Ogunsola. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003, 267 pp. The title under review forms Volume 16 in the Collected...

JOHN DRYDEN AND HIS WORLD, by James Anderson Winn. Yale University Press. 650 pp. $29.95. Illustrated. James Winn's first - ate biography of John Dryden reminds us that in 17th- century England poetry was a public act. When poets took off the gloves...