Epistolary
Poem to John Dryden Esq.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08
.
.
.
To which are annex'd some
Curious Remarks on the Immortality of the Soul; and an Essay by the
celebrated Poet, John Dryden Esq. to prove that Natural Religion is
alone necessary to Salvation, in opposition to all Divine Revelation. . . .
1745.
Some Thoughts on the Essay on Natural Religion as opposed to Divine
Revelation said to be Written by the celebrated Dryden; which is
pretended to be the most formidable piece that ever yet appeared
against the Revelation. Reprinted and answer'd by Alethophilus
Gottingensis (George William Alberti). 1747.
There does not seem to be any evidence for the attribution of these
treatises to Dryden.
B. Translations
Bo[u]hours, Dominick. The Life of St Francis Xavier. 1688.
Du Fresnoy, C. A. De Arte graphica: The Art of Painting. Translated
into English ; Together with an Original Preface containing a Parallel
betwixt Painting and Poetry by Mr Dryden. 1695. 2nd ed. 1716.
3rd ed. 1750.
Maimbourg, L. The History of the League. Translated into English by
His Majesty's Command by Mr Dryden. 1684.
Tacitus. Annals. Book 1 translated by Dryden in vol. 1 of The Annals
and History of Cornelius Tacitus. Made English by several Hands. 1698.
DRYDENIANA
1672. The Rehearsal, as it was acted at the Theatre-Royal.
This, the first and most brilliant attack upon Dryden, owed its origin to
George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham, but it owes its wit largely
to the duke's assistants in its production-Samuel Butler, Sprat
(Buckingham's chaplain), and Martin Clifford, afterwards master of
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403
Charterhouse. The play was frequently reprinted and added to, and it
was of sufficient general interest to keep its place on the stage until it
was superseded by Sheridan's Critic.
1672. Conquest of Granada.
The Censure of the Rota on Mr Dryden's Conquest of Granada. Oxford, 1673.
Written by Richard Leigh of Queen's College, Oxford, and afterwards of
the Duke's Theatre.
A Friendly Vindication of Mr Dryden from the Censure of the Rota by his
Cabal of Wits. Cambridge, 1673. Written by Charles Blount.
Mr Dreyden vindicated, in a reply to the Friendly Vindication of Mr Dreyden.
1673.
A Description of the Academy of the Athenian Virtuosi with a Discourse
held there in Vindication of Mr Dryden's Conquest of Granada; against
the Author of the Censure of the Rota. 1673.
Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco. Revised, with some
few erratas to be printed instead of the Postscript with the next edition
of the Conquest of Granada. 1674. Re-issued in 1687 with a second
title-page-Reflections on several of Mr Dryden's Plays, particularly the
first and second parts of the Conquest of Granada. By E. Settle, Gent.
1680. Ovid's Epistles.
The Wits Paraphras'd: or Paraphrase upon Paraphrase. In a Burlesque
on the several late Translations of Ovid's Epistles. 1680.
Ovid Travestie, or a Burlesque upon several of Ovid's Epistles. By Alexander
Radcliffe. 1680. 2nd ed. enlarged. 1681.
1681. Absalom and Achitophel.
Towser the Second, a Bull-Dog or a Short Reply to Absalon and Achitophel.
1681. [Broadside. ] [By Henry Care. ]
Poetical Reflections on a late Poem entituled Absolon and Achitophel. By
a Person of Honour (George Villiers, and duke of Buckingham).
1682.
Absalom Senior or Achitophel transpros’d. A Poem. 1682. (By Elkanah
Settle. ]
Absalon's IX Worthies or a Key to a late Book or Poem, entituled AB and
AO. (Broadside. ]
Azaria and Hushai, a Poem. 1682. [By Samuel Pordage. ]
Satyr to his Muse. By the Author of Absalom and Achitophel. 1682.
The Murmurers, a Poem. 1689. (Dryden is represented as Balaam. ]
Uzziah and Jotham, a Poem. 1690.
8
1682. The Medal.
The Medal Revers’d. A Satyre against Persecution by the Author of
Azaria and Hushai [Samuel Pordage). 1682.
The Medal of John Bayes, a Satyr against Folly and Knavery. 1682. [By
Thomas Shadwell. ]
The Loyal Medal Vindicated, a Poem. 1682.
The Mushroom; or a Satyr against Libelling Tories and Prelatical Tantivies
in answer to a Satyr against Sedition called The Meddal; by the Author
of Absalom and Achitophel; and here answered by the Author of the
Black Nonconformist; the next day after the publication of the Meddal
to help the sale thereof. 1682. [By Edmund Hickeringill. ]
26-2
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404
Bibliography
1682. Mac Flecknoe.
Flecknoe, Ric. Miscellanea, or Poems of all sorts 1653.
Epigrams. 1670, 1671, 1673.
1683. The Duke of Guise.
The True History of the Duke of Guise. . . . Published for the undeceiving
such as may perhaps be imposed upon by Mr Dryden's late T.
edy of
the Duke of Guise. 1683.
Some Reflections upon the pretended Parallel in the play called The Duke
of Guise. 1683. (Attributed to Shadwell. ]
1683. Agathocles, the Sicilian Usurper, a Poem. (By Thomas Hoy, M. D. ]
1683. A Lenten Prologue. [By Thomas Shadwell. ] A. sh.
1685. The Laurel, a Poem on the Poet-Laureat. [By Robert Gould. ]
1685. The Laureat Jack Squabbs History. [c. 1685. ]
1687. The Hind and the Panther.
The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of The Country Mouse
and the City Mouse, 1687. Written by Matthew Prior and Charles
Montagu (afterwards earl of Halifax).
Notes upon Mr Dryden's Poems in four Letters. By M. Clifford, late Master
of the Charter House, London. To which are annexed some Reflections
upon the Hind and Panther. By Another Hand (Tom Brown). 1687.
Martin Clifford died in 1677 and the fourth letter is dated 1 July 1672,
but the Letters do not appear to have been printed before 1687. Probably
they were circulated in MS.
The Revolter; a Trage-Comedy acted between the Hind and the Panther, and.
Religio Laici, &c. 1687.
The New Atlantis; a Poem in three Books. With some Reflections upon
the Hind and the Panther. 1687.
A Poem in Defence of the Church of England; in Opposition to the Hind
and Panther, Written by Mr John Dryden. 1688.
The Hind in the Toil. 1688.
1688. Religio Laici, or & Layman's Faith touching the Supream and
Infallible Guide of the Church, by J. R. , & convert of Mr Bayes. In
two Letters to a Friend in the Country.
1688. The Reasons of Mr Bays changing his Religion, considered in a
Dialogue between Crites, Eugenius and Mr Bays. [By Tom Brown. ]
1689. The Address of John Dryden, Laureat to His Highness the Prince of
Orange.
[This has occasionally been catalogued as if it were written by the
poet. It is, of course, an attack upon him. )
1690. The Late Converts Exposed; or the Reasons of Mr Bays's changing
his Religion considered in a Dialogue. Part the Second. With
Reflections on the Life of St Xavier; Don Sebastian King of Portugal.
As also The Fable of the Bat and the Birds. [By Tom Brown. ] 1690.
1690. The Reasons of Mr Joseph Hains, the Player's Conversion and
Reconversion. Being the third and last Part to the Dialogue of
Mr Bays. [By Tom Brown. ] 1690.
1697. Translation of Virgil.
Notes on Dryden's Virgil, in a Letter to a Friend. With an Essay on the
same poet by Mr Milbourne. 1698.
* 1698. Collier, Jeremy. A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness
of the English Stage.
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1699.
Epistolary Poem to John Dryden Esq. By William Pittis.
1691. The Reasons of the New Convert's taking the Oaths to the present
Government. By the Author of the Reasons of Mr Bays' Conversion.
In a Dialogue (between Timothy and Freeman).
1700. Luctus Britannici: or the Tears of the British Muses; for the death
of John Dryden, Esq. . . . Written by the most Eminent Hands in the two
famous Universities, and by several others.
1700. To the Memory of Mr Dryden. A Poem. (By C. Brome. ]
1700. An Elely (sic) on the most celebrated Poet of the Age John Dryden
Esq. who departed this life May the 1st 1700.
1700. A Description of Mr D-n's Funeral. A Poem. (By Tom Brown. ]
1700. The Patentee: or Some Reflections in verse on Mr R- - forgetting
the Design of his Majesty's Bear-Garden at Hockly in the Hole, and
Letting out the Theatre in Dorset-Garden to the same use, on the day
which Mr Dryden's Obsequies were perform'd; and both Play-houses
forbore acting in honour to his momory. 1 leaf, 2 pp.
1700. A New Session of the Poets, occasion’d by the Death of Mr Dryden.
By a Person of Honour.
1702. The Mouse grown a Rat: or the Story of the City and Country Mouse
newly transpor'd. In a Discourse between Baye, Johnson and Smith.
1703. The Second Part of The Mouse grown a Rat.
1721. Verses occasion’d by reading Mr Dryden's Fables. . . . by Mr Jabez
Hughes.
H. B. WHEATLEY.
The following may be mentioned among modern editions of particular
writings, or groups of writings, by Dryden:
Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Ed. Smith, D. Nichol. 1889.
Ed. Arnold, T. With Introduction by Arnold, W. T. Oxford, 1903.
Ed. von Schunck. New York, 1899.
Hlind, The, and the Panther. Ed. Williams, W. H. 1900.
Satires. Ed. Collins, J. C. 1893.
Select Poems. Edd. Christie, W. D. and Firth, C. H. Oxford, 1893.
Virgils Aeneid. Books I, II and II. Ed. Thompson, A. Hamilton. Cambridge,
1911.
MODERN CRITICISM
B. , G. S. A Study of the Prologue and Epilogue in English Literature, from
Shakespeare to Dryden. 1884.
Beljame, A. Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre (1660-1744).
Paris, 1831.
Chase, L. N. The English Heroic Play. New York, 1909.
Child, C. G. The rise of the heroio play. Mod. Lang. Notes. 1904.
Collins, G. S. Dryden's Theorie und Praxis. Leipzig, 1892.
Collins, J. Churton. Essays and Studies. 1895.
Courthope, W. J. History of English Poetry, vols. III and iv. 1903.
Delius, N. Dryden und Shakespeare. Jahrbuch d. deutschen Shakespeare
Gesellschaft, vol. iv. Berlin, 1869.
Dryden, John. Quarterly Review, vol. cxlvi. 1878.
Dryden's Dramatio Works. The Retrospective Review, vol. I, part 1. 1820.
Prose Works: vol. iv, part 1. 1821.
Garnett, R. The Age of Dryden. 1895.
Hamelius, P. Die Kritik in d. engl. Litteratur d. 17. u. 18. Jahrh. Leipzig,
1897.
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Literaturgesch. d. 18. Jahrhunderts, vol. 1. 2nd ed. Brunswick, 1865.
Holzhausen, P. Dryden's heroisches Drama. Englische Studien, vols. X-XVI.
Leipzig, 1889-92.
Johnson, S. Lives of the Poets, vol. II. 4 vols. 1781.
Kölbing, E. Zu Dryden's Annus Mirabilis. Englische Studien, vol. XVI.
Leipzig, 1892.
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Sherwood, M. Dryden's Dramatio Theory and Practice. (Yale Studies. )
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Tüchert, A. Dryden als Dramatiker in seine Beziehungen zu M. de Soudéry's
Romandichtung.
Curious Remarks on the Immortality of the Soul; and an Essay by the
celebrated Poet, John Dryden Esq. to prove that Natural Religion is
alone necessary to Salvation, in opposition to all Divine Revelation. . . .
1745.
Some Thoughts on the Essay on Natural Religion as opposed to Divine
Revelation said to be Written by the celebrated Dryden; which is
pretended to be the most formidable piece that ever yet appeared
against the Revelation. Reprinted and answer'd by Alethophilus
Gottingensis (George William Alberti). 1747.
There does not seem to be any evidence for the attribution of these
treatises to Dryden.
B. Translations
Bo[u]hours, Dominick. The Life of St Francis Xavier. 1688.
Du Fresnoy, C. A. De Arte graphica: The Art of Painting. Translated
into English ; Together with an Original Preface containing a Parallel
betwixt Painting and Poetry by Mr Dryden. 1695. 2nd ed. 1716.
3rd ed. 1750.
Maimbourg, L. The History of the League. Translated into English by
His Majesty's Command by Mr Dryden. 1684.
Tacitus. Annals. Book 1 translated by Dryden in vol. 1 of The Annals
and History of Cornelius Tacitus. Made English by several Hands. 1698.
DRYDENIANA
1672. The Rehearsal, as it was acted at the Theatre-Royal.
This, the first and most brilliant attack upon Dryden, owed its origin to
George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham, but it owes its wit largely
to the duke's assistants in its production-Samuel Butler, Sprat
(Buckingham's chaplain), and Martin Clifford, afterwards master of
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403
Charterhouse. The play was frequently reprinted and added to, and it
was of sufficient general interest to keep its place on the stage until it
was superseded by Sheridan's Critic.
1672. Conquest of Granada.
The Censure of the Rota on Mr Dryden's Conquest of Granada. Oxford, 1673.
Written by Richard Leigh of Queen's College, Oxford, and afterwards of
the Duke's Theatre.
A Friendly Vindication of Mr Dryden from the Censure of the Rota by his
Cabal of Wits. Cambridge, 1673. Written by Charles Blount.
Mr Dreyden vindicated, in a reply to the Friendly Vindication of Mr Dreyden.
1673.
A Description of the Academy of the Athenian Virtuosi with a Discourse
held there in Vindication of Mr Dryden's Conquest of Granada; against
the Author of the Censure of the Rota. 1673.
Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco. Revised, with some
few erratas to be printed instead of the Postscript with the next edition
of the Conquest of Granada. 1674. Re-issued in 1687 with a second
title-page-Reflections on several of Mr Dryden's Plays, particularly the
first and second parts of the Conquest of Granada. By E. Settle, Gent.
1680. Ovid's Epistles.
The Wits Paraphras'd: or Paraphrase upon Paraphrase. In a Burlesque
on the several late Translations of Ovid's Epistles. 1680.
Ovid Travestie, or a Burlesque upon several of Ovid's Epistles. By Alexander
Radcliffe. 1680. 2nd ed. enlarged. 1681.
1681. Absalom and Achitophel.
Towser the Second, a Bull-Dog or a Short Reply to Absalon and Achitophel.
1681. [Broadside. ] [By Henry Care. ]
Poetical Reflections on a late Poem entituled Absolon and Achitophel. By
a Person of Honour (George Villiers, and duke of Buckingham).
1682.
Absalom Senior or Achitophel transpros’d. A Poem. 1682. (By Elkanah
Settle. ]
Absalon's IX Worthies or a Key to a late Book or Poem, entituled AB and
AO. (Broadside. ]
Azaria and Hushai, a Poem. 1682. [By Samuel Pordage. ]
Satyr to his Muse. By the Author of Absalom and Achitophel. 1682.
The Murmurers, a Poem. 1689. (Dryden is represented as Balaam. ]
Uzziah and Jotham, a Poem. 1690.
8
1682. The Medal.
The Medal Revers’d. A Satyre against Persecution by the Author of
Azaria and Hushai [Samuel Pordage). 1682.
The Medal of John Bayes, a Satyr against Folly and Knavery. 1682. [By
Thomas Shadwell. ]
The Loyal Medal Vindicated, a Poem. 1682.
The Mushroom; or a Satyr against Libelling Tories and Prelatical Tantivies
in answer to a Satyr against Sedition called The Meddal; by the Author
of Absalom and Achitophel; and here answered by the Author of the
Black Nonconformist; the next day after the publication of the Meddal
to help the sale thereof. 1682. [By Edmund Hickeringill. ]
26-2
## p. 404 (#426) ############################################
404
Bibliography
1682. Mac Flecknoe.
Flecknoe, Ric. Miscellanea, or Poems of all sorts 1653.
Epigrams. 1670, 1671, 1673.
1683. The Duke of Guise.
The True History of the Duke of Guise. . . . Published for the undeceiving
such as may perhaps be imposed upon by Mr Dryden's late T.
edy of
the Duke of Guise. 1683.
Some Reflections upon the pretended Parallel in the play called The Duke
of Guise. 1683. (Attributed to Shadwell. ]
1683. Agathocles, the Sicilian Usurper, a Poem. (By Thomas Hoy, M. D. ]
1683. A Lenten Prologue. [By Thomas Shadwell. ] A. sh.
1685. The Laurel, a Poem on the Poet-Laureat. [By Robert Gould. ]
1685. The Laureat Jack Squabbs History. [c. 1685. ]
1687. The Hind and the Panther.
The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of The Country Mouse
and the City Mouse, 1687. Written by Matthew Prior and Charles
Montagu (afterwards earl of Halifax).
Notes upon Mr Dryden's Poems in four Letters. By M. Clifford, late Master
of the Charter House, London. To which are annexed some Reflections
upon the Hind and Panther. By Another Hand (Tom Brown). 1687.
Martin Clifford died in 1677 and the fourth letter is dated 1 July 1672,
but the Letters do not appear to have been printed before 1687. Probably
they were circulated in MS.
The Revolter; a Trage-Comedy acted between the Hind and the Panther, and.
Religio Laici, &c. 1687.
The New Atlantis; a Poem in three Books. With some Reflections upon
the Hind and the Panther. 1687.
A Poem in Defence of the Church of England; in Opposition to the Hind
and Panther, Written by Mr John Dryden. 1688.
The Hind in the Toil. 1688.
1688. Religio Laici, or & Layman's Faith touching the Supream and
Infallible Guide of the Church, by J. R. , & convert of Mr Bayes. In
two Letters to a Friend in the Country.
1688. The Reasons of Mr Bays changing his Religion, considered in a
Dialogue between Crites, Eugenius and Mr Bays. [By Tom Brown. ]
1689. The Address of John Dryden, Laureat to His Highness the Prince of
Orange.
[This has occasionally been catalogued as if it were written by the
poet. It is, of course, an attack upon him. )
1690. The Late Converts Exposed; or the Reasons of Mr Bays's changing
his Religion considered in a Dialogue. Part the Second. With
Reflections on the Life of St Xavier; Don Sebastian King of Portugal.
As also The Fable of the Bat and the Birds. [By Tom Brown. ] 1690.
1690. The Reasons of Mr Joseph Hains, the Player's Conversion and
Reconversion. Being the third and last Part to the Dialogue of
Mr Bays. [By Tom Brown. ] 1690.
1697. Translation of Virgil.
Notes on Dryden's Virgil, in a Letter to a Friend. With an Essay on the
same poet by Mr Milbourne. 1698.
* 1698. Collier, Jeremy. A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness
of the English Stage.
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405
1699.
Epistolary Poem to John Dryden Esq. By William Pittis.
1691. The Reasons of the New Convert's taking the Oaths to the present
Government. By the Author of the Reasons of Mr Bays' Conversion.
In a Dialogue (between Timothy and Freeman).
1700. Luctus Britannici: or the Tears of the British Muses; for the death
of John Dryden, Esq. . . . Written by the most Eminent Hands in the two
famous Universities, and by several others.
1700. To the Memory of Mr Dryden. A Poem. (By C. Brome. ]
1700. An Elely (sic) on the most celebrated Poet of the Age John Dryden
Esq. who departed this life May the 1st 1700.
1700. A Description of Mr D-n's Funeral. A Poem. (By Tom Brown. ]
1700. The Patentee: or Some Reflections in verse on Mr R- - forgetting
the Design of his Majesty's Bear-Garden at Hockly in the Hole, and
Letting out the Theatre in Dorset-Garden to the same use, on the day
which Mr Dryden's Obsequies were perform'd; and both Play-houses
forbore acting in honour to his momory. 1 leaf, 2 pp.
1700. A New Session of the Poets, occasion’d by the Death of Mr Dryden.
By a Person of Honour.
1702. The Mouse grown a Rat: or the Story of the City and Country Mouse
newly transpor'd. In a Discourse between Baye, Johnson and Smith.
1703. The Second Part of The Mouse grown a Rat.
1721. Verses occasion’d by reading Mr Dryden's Fables. . . . by Mr Jabez
Hughes.
H. B. WHEATLEY.
The following may be mentioned among modern editions of particular
writings, or groups of writings, by Dryden:
Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Ed. Smith, D. Nichol. 1889.
Ed. Arnold, T. With Introduction by Arnold, W. T. Oxford, 1903.
Ed. von Schunck. New York, 1899.
Hlind, The, and the Panther. Ed. Williams, W. H. 1900.
Satires. Ed. Collins, J. C. 1893.
Select Poems. Edd. Christie, W. D. and Firth, C. H. Oxford, 1893.
Virgils Aeneid. Books I, II and II. Ed. Thompson, A. Hamilton. Cambridge,
1911.
MODERN CRITICISM
B. , G. S. A Study of the Prologue and Epilogue in English Literature, from
Shakespeare to Dryden. 1884.
Beljame, A. Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre (1660-1744).
Paris, 1831.
Chase, L. N. The English Heroic Play. New York, 1909.
Child, C. G. The rise of the heroio play. Mod. Lang. Notes. 1904.
Collins, G. S. Dryden's Theorie und Praxis. Leipzig, 1892.
Collins, J. Churton. Essays and Studies. 1895.
Courthope, W. J. History of English Poetry, vols. III and iv. 1903.
Delius, N. Dryden und Shakespeare. Jahrbuch d. deutschen Shakespeare
Gesellschaft, vol. iv. Berlin, 1869.
Dryden, John. Quarterly Review, vol. cxlvi. 1878.
Dryden's Dramatio Works. The Retrospective Review, vol. I, part 1. 1820.
Prose Works: vol. iv, part 1. 1821.
Garnett, R. The Age of Dryden. 1895.
Hamelius, P. Die Kritik in d. engl. Litteratur d. 17. u. 18. Jahrh. Leipzig,
1897.
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406
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Hazlitt, W. English Poets. Works, vol. v. Edd. Glover, A. and Waller, A. B.
1902.
Hettner, H. Geschichte der englischen Literatur 1660-70, book I, sec. 2.
Literaturgesch. d. 18. Jahrhunderts, vol. 1. 2nd ed. Brunswick, 1865.
Holzhausen, P. Dryden's heroisches Drama. Englische Studien, vols. X-XVI.
Leipzig, 1889-92.
Johnson, S. Lives of the Poets, vol. II. 4 vols. 1781.
Kölbing, E. Zu Dryden's Annus Mirabilis. Englische Studien, vol. XVI.
Leipzig, 1892.
Saintsbury, G. Dryden. English Men of Letters. 1881.
Sherwood, M. Dryden's Dramatio Theory and Practice. (Yale Studies. )
Boston, 1899.
Taine, H. Histoire de la littérature anglaise, vol. II. 2nd ed. Paris, 1866.
Eng. trans. vol. III.
Thorndike, A. H. Tragedy. 1908. [Contains good bibliographies. ]
Tüchert, A. Dryden als Dramatiker in seine Beziehungen zu M. de Soudéry's
Romandichtung.
