Most Himself
Matthew Reynolds: Dryden, 19 July 2007
The Poems of John Dryden: Vol. V 1697-1700
edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins.
Longman, 707 pp., £113.99, July 2005,0 582 49214 9 Show More
edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins.
Longman, 707 pp., £113.99, July 2005,
Dryden: Selected Poems
edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins.
Longman, 856 pp., £19.99, February 2007,978 1 4058 3545 9 Show More
edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins.
Longman, 856 pp., £19.99, February 2007,
“... Of all the great English poets, Dryden must be the least enjoyed. Once honoured ‘rather in the stiffness than in the strength of his eminence’, he was soon ‘laid carefully away among the heroes’, according to Mark Van Doren, the critic who is still, nearly a century on, the most persuasive of his would-be resurrectors ... ”