The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works

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C O M M E N T A R Y This page intentionally left blank Abbreviated References 297 List of Abbreviated References Amelot: Tacite avec des Notes Politiques et Historiques, trans. Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye, The Hague, 1693 BH: Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets, ed. George Birkbeck Hill, Oxford, 1905 BIHR: Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research Bourdelot: h.ovKia.vav ...Luciani Samosatensis Philosophi Opera, ed. Joannes Bourdelotius, Paris, 1615 Casaubon: HoXvpiov .. .Polybii Lycortte F.Megalopolitani Historiarum Libri qui Supersunt, interprete Isaaco Casaubono: Jacobus Gronovius recensuit, II, ad pagination, Amsterdam, 1670 CL: Comparative Literature CP: Classical Philology CSPD: Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series D'Ablancourt: Lucien, trans. Nicholas Perrot, Sieur d'Ablancourt, Paris, 1688 Des Maizeaux: The Works of Monsieur de St. Evremond, Made English, ed. and trans. Pierre Des Maizeaux, ad ed., 1728 DNB: Dictionary of National Biography ELH: A Journal of English Literary History Hagstrum: Jean H. Hagstrum, The Sister Arts, Chicago, 1958 HLQ: Huntington Library Quarterly HMC: Historical Manuscripts Commission JHI: Journal of the History of Ideas JWCI: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes Kinsley: The Poems of John Dryden, ed. James Kinsley, Oxford, 1958 L'Art de Peinture: Charles Alphonse Dufresnoy, L'Art de Peinture . . . Traduit en Francois [by Roger de Piles], avec des Remarques [by de Piles], Paris, 1668 Lucian: AOVKHIVOV Airavra: Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Basle, 1563 Luttrell: Narcissus Luttrell, A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs 1678-1714, Oxford, 1857 Macdonald: Hugh Macdonald, John Dryden: A Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydeniana, Oxford, 1939 Malone: Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, ed. Edmond Malone, 1800 Mayne: Part of Lucian Made English . . . By Jasper Mayne, . . . To which are adjoyned those other Dialogues of Lucian as they were formerly translated by Mr Francis Hicks, Oxford, 1663 MP: Modern Philology N&Q: Notes and Queries Noyes: Poetical Works of Dryden, ed. George R. Noyes, ad ed., Cambridge, Mass., 1950 OED: Oxford English Dictionary Osborn: James M. Osborn, John Dryden: Some Biographical Facts and Problems, rev. ed., Gainesville, Fla., 1965 sg8 Commentary Pauly-Wissowa: Paulys Real-Encyclopddie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft , ed. Georg Wissowa et al., Stuttgart, 1894-1981 PESA: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Pichón: C. Cornelii Taciti Opera, ed. Julianas Pichón Abbas, París, 16821687 PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America PQ: Philological Quarterly RES: Review of English Studies Saint-Evremond: Miscellaneous Essays: By Monsieur St. Euremont, 1693 Sheeres: The History of Polybius, trans. Sir Henry Sheeres, 1693 SP: Studies in Philology Spence: Lucian's Works, trans. Ferrand Spence, 1684-1685 Spingarn: Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, ed. J. E. Spingarn, reissue, Bloomington, Ind., 1957 S-S: The Works of John Dryden, ed. Sir Walter Scott and George Saintsbury , Edinburgh, 1882-1893 Ternois: Saint-Evremond, Oeuvres en Prose, ed. Rene Ternois, Paris, 19621969 Tilley: M. P. Tilley, A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Ann Arbor, 1950 Van Lennep: The London Stage, 1660-1800, Part I: 1660-1700, ed. William Van Lennep, with Critical Introduction by Emmett L. Avery and Arthur H. Scouten, Carbondale, 111., 1965 Ward, Letters: The Letters of John Dryden, ed. Charles E. Ward, Durham, N.C., 1942 Ward, Life: Charles E. Ward, The Life of John Dryden, Chapel HUÍ, N.C., 1961 Watson: John Dryden: Of Dramatic Poesy and Other Critical Essays, ed. George Watson, 1962 Works: Dryden's works in the present edition Works of Ludan: The Works of Lucían, Translated from the Greek, 17101711 Preface to Dialogue Concerning Women 299 Preface to A Dialogue Concerning Women Dryden arranged for the publication of A Dialogue Concerning Women and supplied a preface out of friendship for its author, William Walsh (1662-1708). Slight in itself and seemingly innocuous, the preface nonetheless excited the suspicion and contempt of an anonymous lampooner, whose verses circulated in manuscript some time after Walsh's dialogue was advertised in the London Gazette for 16-20 April 1691. Rather than the defense of women proclaimed on the title page, Walsh's dialogue was construed by the lampooner as an attack upon them, and Dryden was charged with controlling Walsh and masterminding the attack. But the story underlying the dialogue involved more than another case of would-be praise interpreted as actual satire, and to understand Dryden's involvement in the composition, publication, and reception of the dialogue, we need to retrace the steps of...