The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works

544 Pages·1989·27.916 MB·English

by  Dryden, John, of Samosata. Lucian, Polybius., Tacitus, Cornelius, Maurer, A. E. Wallace, Guffey, George Robert, Dryden, John, Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse

The Works of John Dryden:
Prose 1691-1698: De Arte
Graphica and Shorter Works,
Volume XX
John Dryden
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN
General Editor
ALAN ROPER
Textual Editor
VINTON A. DEARING
VOLUME TWENTY
EDITOR
A.E. Wallace Maurer
TEXTUAL EDITOR
George R. Guffey
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JOHN DRYDEN, FROM AN ENGRAVING BY W. FAITHORNE
AFTER A PAINTING BY JOHN CLOSTERMAN
Mounted in the Clark Library's large-paper copy
of Dryden’s Virgil
VOLUME XX
The Works
of John Dryden
Prose 1691-1698
DE ARTE GRAPHICA
AND SHORTER WORKS
University of California Press
Berkeley Los Angeles London
1989
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, LTD.
London, England
The copy texts of this edition have been drawn in
the main from the Dryden Collection of the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Copyright © 1989 by The Regents of the University of California
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN: 0-520—02133—9
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55—7149
Designed by Ward Ritchie
In Gratitude
for Years of Advice and Assistance
since the Inception of this Edition
This Volume of the California Dryden
Is Dedicated to the Past and Present Staffs
of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The preparation of this volume of the California edition of
The Works of John Dryden has been made possible in part
by a grant from the Editing Program of the National Endow-
ment for the Humanities and by a matching grant from The
UCLA Foundation.
Preface
The editors of this volume divided their labors as follows: George
R. Guffey prepared the text; A. E. Wallace Maurer researched
and drafted most of the commentary, which was put into final
form by Alan Roper, who also collaborated with Maurer on the
research for and then wrote the commentary to Dryden’s transla-
tion from Tacitus.
The editors are particularly indebted to the following: To the
staffs of these libraries for their advice and assistance: the Wil-
liam Andrews Clark Memorial Library, the UCLA Research
Library, the Belt Library of Vinciana at UCLA, the Henry E.
Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, the Bancroft Li-
brary at UC Berkeley, the British Library, the University of
Michigan Rare Books Room, and the Ohio State University
Library, especially the Rare Books Room for furnishing the
Editor with a table and special privileges during some eight
years.
To the late Professor Samuel Holt Monk for notes and sugges-
tions used in the commentary to Dryden’s Parallel betwixt
Painting and Poetry.
To Professor Clarence A. Forbes for the translation of Latin
passages from Casaubon’s edition of Polybius and Pichon’s edi-
tion of Tacitus used in the commentary to The Character of
Polybius.
To Professor Kim D. Gainer for assistance in the collation of
editions of Dryden’s French original for De Arte Graphica.
To Professor Steven N. Zwicker for exchange of findings on a
variety of topics.
To Professors Charles L. Babcock, Alan K. Brown, A. R.
Braunmuller, David E. Hahm, Phillip Harth, Philip Levine,
Franklin M. Ludden, Albert N. Mancini, Earl Miner, Mark P. O.
Morford, Ronald C. Rosbottom, Carl C. Schlam, John M. Wal-
lace, and Charles G. Williams for researching and answering
many questions.
To the present or former graduate students of the depart-
ments of English and History at UCLA: Jane A belson, Dianne
Dugaw, Walter Ellis, Robert Hunt, Jill Kuhn, Ronald Lear,
Janette Lewis, Kathryne Lindberg, Geraldine Moyle, and Eric