Select Bibliography The place of publication is London unless stated otherwise. Dryden's Works The Poems of John Dryden, edited by James Kinsley, 4 vols (Oxford, 1958). Unless otherwise stated, quotations from Dryden's poems and their prefaces are taken from this edition, with references by line numbers. The Works of John Dryden, edited by H. T. Swedenberg et al., 20 vols (Berkeley, 1956- ), in progress. Quotations from Dryden's plays and prose works are taken from this edition where available; references are by volume and page number. OJ Dramatic Poesy and other critical essays, edited by George Watson, 2 vols (1962). The Letters of John Dryden, edited by Charles E. Ward (Durham, NC, 1942). Bibliographical Works Hugh Macdonald, John Dryden: A Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydeniana (Oxford, 1939). This was corrected and supplemented by James M. Osborn in Modern Philology 39 (1941) 69-98, 197-212. Peter Beal, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, vol. 2, part 1 (1987) pp. 383-428. Lists manuscript copies of Dryden's works. David J. Latt and Samuel Holt Monk, John Dryden: A Survey and Bibliography of Critical Studies, 1895-1974 (Minneapolis, 1976). Subsequent studies are listed in various periodicals, including Restoration, The Scriblerian and The Year's Work in English Studies. Biographical Works Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, vol. 1 (Oxford, 1905) pp. 331-487. Hugh Macdonald, 'The Attacks on Dryden', Essays and Studies 21 (1936) 41-74. James M. Osborn, John Dryden: Some Biographical Facts and Problems, revised edition (Gainesville, 1965). James Anderson Winn, John Dryden and his World (New Haven, 1987). This fine biography provides detailed information on many of the topics discussed in the present book. For reasons of economy, repeated cross-references to Winn's book are not given in the notes which follow. 171 172 Select Bibliography Criticism Studies of particular areas of Dryden's work are cited in the headnote to each chapter, but several general studies deserve notice: Louis I. Bredvold, The Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden (Ann Arbor, 1924). Supplemented but not altogether replaced by Harth (see headnote to ch. 6). James D. Garrison, Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric (Berkeley, 1975). Arthur W. Hoffman, John Dryden's Imagery (Gainesville, 1962). David Hopkins, John Dryden (Cambridge, 1986). James and Helen Kinsley (eds), Dryden: The Critical Heritage (1971). George McFadden, Dryden the Public Writer 1660-1685 (Princeton, 1978). Earl Miner, Dryden's Poetry (Bloomington, 1967). Earl Miner (ed), John Dryden (1972). A collection of essays. Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of his Poetry (Bloomington, 1920; revised 1946). Steven N. Zwicker, Dryden's Political Poetry: The Typology of King and Nation (Providence, 1972). Steven N. Zwicker, Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry: The Arts of Disguise (Princeton, 1984). Dryden's Cultural and Political World Only a few preliminary suggestions can be offered in this field. The best general account of the Restoration period is still David Ogg, England in the Reign of Charles II (Oxford, 1934). Two recent books by Ronald Hutton are very useful: The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales 1658-1667 (Oxford, 1985), and his biography Charles the Second: King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Oxford, 1989). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, 11 vols (1970-83) is an invaluable source for the earlier part of Charles' reign. Poems on Affairs of State, edited by George deF. Lord et al., 7 vols (New Haven, 1963-75) collects many samples of the public poetry of the age. Notes Prologue 1. The Essays of Michael, Lord of Montaigne, translated by John Florio, 3 vols (1904--6) ii 6-7. Chapterl Dryden's education would initially have been shaped by the puritan attitudes prevailing in his family, which are well discussed by Winn, pp. 1-35; for the general context see John Morgan, Godly Learning: Puritan Attitudes towards Reason, Learning, and Education, 1560-1640 (Cambridge, 1986). Details of the Westminster curriculum are given by Winn, pp. 521-4. For Dryden at Cambridge see Paul Hammond, 'Dryden and Trinity', Review of English Studies 36 (1985) 35-57. 1. Abraham Cowley, Poems, edited by A. R. Waller (Cambridge, 1905) p.7. 2. Paul Hammond, 'The Integrity of Dryden's Lucretius', Modern Language Review 78 (1983) 1-23, p. 12. 3. 'I remember, when I was a boy, I thought Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Dubartas' (Of Dramatic Poesy, ed. Watson, i 277). 4. 'For witness is a Common Name to all' (Absalom and Achitophel, l. 618) is an adaptation of 'Homo, is a commune name to all men' from William Lily and John Co let's A Shorte Introduction of Grammar (1549) p.7. 5. Headnote to 'The Third Satyr' of Persius. 6. Paul Hammond, 'Dryden's Zimri and Juvenal', Notes and Queries 223 (1978) 26; Paul Hammond, review in Review of English Studies 33 (1982) 326. 7. 'Of English Verse', ll. 13-16; in The Poems of Edmund Waller, edited by G. Thorn Drury, 2 vols (1901). 8. Michael Gearin-Tosh, 'Marvell's "Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings"', Essays and Studies 34 (1981) 105-22. 9. John Templer, The Saints Duty in contending for the Faith delivered to them (1659) p. 15; A Treatise relating to the Worship of God (1694) p. 107. 10. James Bass Mullinger, The University of Cambridge, vol. 3 (Cambridge, 1911) p. 271. 11. The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow, D.D., edited by Alexander Napier, vol. 9 (Cambridge, 1859) p. viii. 12. 'To goodman Page for carving the States armes over the new court gate and takeing downe ye Kings £3-17s-Od'; 'To John Woodruffe for carving the States arms and setting them up in the Hall £7-0-0' 173 174 Notes (Trinity College Muniments, 'Senior Bursar's Audit Book', 1651). Quotations from the Trinity College muniments and manuscripts are made by kind permission of the Master and Fellows. 13. Dictionary of National Biography, Hill. 14. Duport's rules are quoted from the copy in Trinity College Library, MS 0.10A.33; there is a more complete copy in Cambridge Universi­ ty Library, MS Add 6986. 15. Trinity College Muniments, 'Conclusions and Admonitions 1607- 73', p. 221. 16. Thomas Shadwell, The Medal of John Bayes (1682) p. 8. 17. The Historical Register of the University of Cambridge, edited by J. R. Tanner (Cambridge, 1917) p. 407; Trinity College Muniments, 'Con­ clusions and Admonitions 1607-1673', p. 237. 18. Samuel Johnson, Lives, p. 334. 19. 'A Turncoat of the Times', II. 10-18, 82-90, in The Roxburghe Ballads, edited by J. W. Ebsworth, vol. 4 (Hertford, 1883) pp. 517-19. 20. Samuel Pordage, The Medal Revers'd (1682) pp. 1-2. 21. Dictionary of National Biography, Pickering; Austin Woolrych, Com­ monwealth to Protectorate (Oxford, 1982) p. 200; Calendar of State Papers Domestic 1655-56, pp. 20, 218; CSPD 1655-57, p. 355. 22. Shadwell, p. 8. 23. Public Record Office SP 181180/95; Paul Hammond, 'Dryden's Em­ ployment by Cromwell's Government', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 8 (1981) 130-6. 24. Bodleian Library Oxford, MS Rawlinson A 38 f.260r. 25. British Library MS Lansdowne 95 f.41v. 26. Paul Hammond, 'Dryden's use of Marvell's Horatian Ode in Absalom and Achitophel', Notes and Queries 233 (1988) 173-4. 27. For illustrations see Antonia Fraser, Cromwell our chief of men (1973) opposite pp. 285, 476, 700. 28. Machiavelli, The Prince, translated by Edward Dacres (1640), Tudor Translations Series 39 (1905), p. 352. Chapter 2 For the imagery of Astraea Redux see H. T. Swedenberg, 'England's Joy: Astraea Redux in its setting', Studies in Philology 50 (1953) 30-44, and Howard Erskine-Hill, The Augustan Idea in English Literature (1983) pp. 213-22. The context of Annus Mirabilis is well described by Michael McKeon in his Politics and Poetry in Restoration England: The Case of Dryden's 'Annus Mirabilis' (Cambridge, Mass., 1975). The account of Annus Mirabilis given in the present chapter is elaborated in my 'John Dryden: The Classicist as Sceptic', The Seventeenth Century, 4 (1989) 165-87. For alterna­ tive readings see Miner (1967) pp. 3-35, and Michael G. Ketcham, 'Myth and Anti-Myth and the Poetics of Political Events in Two Restoration Poems', Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 13 (1984) 117-32. On Restora­ tion science see Michael Hunter, Science and Society in Restoration England (Cambridge, 1981) and Establishing the New Science: The Experience of the Early Royal Society (Woodbridge, 1989). Notes 175 1. Winn, p. 123. 2. Fortune is prominent in Annus Mirabilis; see also Paul Hammond, 'Dryden's Philosophy of Fortune', Modern Language Review 80 (1985) 769-85. 3. As David M. Vieth argues, 'Irony in Dryden's Verses to Sir Robert Howard', Essays in Criticism 22 (1972) 239-43. 4. See Garrison, passim. 5. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, edited by C. B. Macpherson (Harmond­ sworth, 1968) p. 120. 6. Dryden's translation of the Aeneid, Book Ill. 763; verbatim from Sir John Denham's translation. 7. Pepys, Diary vii 207. 8. Dryden drew particularly upon several numbers of The London Gazette and the official pamphlet A True Narrative of the Engagement (1666). , 9. Rene Le Bossu, Traite du Poeme Epique (1675). 10. The London Gazette 85 (3-10 September, 1666). 11. Trinity College Library, Cambridge, H.24.56. 12. See Douglas Jefferson, 'Aspects of Dryden's Imagery', Essays in Criticism 4 (1954) 20-41; and Harold Love, 'Dryden's "Unideal Vacancy"', Eighteenth-Century Studies 12 (1978) 74-89 and 'Dryden's Rationale of Paradox', ELH 51 (1984) 297-313.