The Poems of John Dryden, Volume 5

The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and user-friendly presentation of the last, and perhaps best, works of the greatest English poet of the later seventeenth century.

Presenting in edited texts, with a editorial commentary, the complete non-dramatic poetry of Dryden's later years, this fifth and final volume in the series contains the text of his final collection, fables, including its prose dedication and preface, together with a number of other poems of the late 1690s, and some posthumously published items.

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.