num_pages: 744
description: This volume completes the five-volume Longman Annotated Poets Edition of the poems of John Dryden, the major poet of Restoration England. It provides a modernized text along with full explanatory annotation. The poems include Dryden's spirited translation from Ovid, Homer, Chaucer, and Boccaccio. This volume presents, in newly-edited texts and with a substantial editorial commentary, the complete non-dramatic poetry of John Dryden’s later years. It contains the full text of Dryden’s final collection, Fables Ancient and Modern , including its prose Dedication and Preface, together with a number of other poems of the late 1690s, and some posthumously published items.
language: English
title: The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Five: 1697-1700
titlecomplete: The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Five: 1697-1700
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Routledge