Dryden's essays
By: John Dryden ; introd. by W.H. Hudson.
Series: Everyman's library. Essays & belles-lettres ; 568
Publisher: Dent; Dutton
Published: 1954
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Criticism; Drama -- History and criticism; Poetry -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: Dramatic essays.
Notes: First published in 1912 under title: Dramatic essays.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. xv-xvii.
Table of contents: title: Epistle dedicatory; title: To the reader; title: An essay of dramatic poesy; title: A defence of An essay of dramatic poesy; title: On comedy, farce, and tragedy; title: Of heroic plays; title: The dramatic poetry of the last age; title: Heroic poetry and poetic license; title: "Antony and Cleopatra" and the art of tragedy; title: The grounds of criticism in tragedy; title: Ovid and the art of translation; title: Nature and dramatic art; title: Preface to Sylvae; title: Musical drama; title: Rhyme and blank verse; title: The properwit of poetry; title: Examen poeticum; title: Virgil and the Æneid; title: On translating the poets; title: Notes.