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

Title Page, Frontispiece, Copyright, Dedication, Preface

The Works of John Dryden: Prose 1691-1698: De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works, Volume XX John Dryden UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN General Editor ALAN ROPER Textual Editor VINTON A. DEARING VOLUME TWENTY EDITOR A.E. Wallace Maurer TEXTUAL EDITOR George R. Guffey This page intentionally left blank JOHN DRYDEN, FROM AN ENGRAVING BY W. FAITHORNE AFTER A PAINTING BY JOHN CLOSTERMAN Mounted in the Clark Library's large-paper copy of Dryden’s Virgil V O L U M E XX The Works of John Dryden Prose 1691-1698 DE ARTE GRAPHICA AND SHORTER WORKS University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London 1989 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley and Los Angeles, California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, LTD. London, England The copy texts of this edition have been drawn in the main from the Dryden Collection of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Copyright © 1989 by The Regents of the University of California Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 0-520—02133—9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55—7149 Designed by Ward Ritchie In Gratitude for Years of Advice and Assistance since the Inception of this Edition This Volume of the California Dryden Is Dedicated to the Past and Present Staffs of the William Andrews ClarkMemorial Library The preparation of this volume of the California edition of The Works of John Dryden has been made possible in part by a grant from the Editing Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a matching grant from The UCLA Foundation. Preface The editors of this volume divided their labors asfollows: George R. Guffey prepared the text; A. E. Wallace Maurer researched and drafted most of the commentary, which was put into final form by Alan Roper, who also collaborated with Maurer on the research for and then wrote the commentary to Dryden’s translation from Tacitus. The editors areparticularly indebted to the following: To the staffs of these libraries for their advice and assistance: the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, the UCLA Research Library, the Belt Library of Vinciana at UCLA, the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, the British Library, the University of Michigan Rare Books Room, and the Ohio State University Library, especially the Rare Books Room for furnishing the Editor with a table and special privileges during some eight years. To the late Professor Samuel Holt Monk for notes and suggestions used in the commentary to Dryden’s Parallel betwixt Painting and Poetry. To Professor Clarence A. Forbes for the translation of Latin passages from Casaubon’s edition of Polybius and Pichon’s edition of Tacitus used in the commentary to The Character of Polybius. To Professor Kim D. Gainer for assistance in the collation of editions of Dryden’s French original for De Arte Graphica. To Professor Steven N. Zwicker for exchange of findings on a variety of topics. To Professors Charles L. Babcock, Alan K. Brown, A. R. Braunmuller, David E. Hahm, Phillip Harth, Philip Levine, Franklin M. Ludden, Albert N. Mancini, Earl Miner, Mark P. O. Morford, Ronald C. Rosbottom, Carl C. Schlam, John M. Wallace , and Charles G. Williams for researching and answering many questions. To the present or former graduate students of the departments of English and History at UCLA: Jane A belson, Dianne Dugaw, Walter Ellis, Robert Hunt, Jill Kuhn, Ronald Lear, Janette Lewis, Kathryne Lindberg, Geraldine Moyle, and Eric viii Preface Schroeder for their assistance in gathering and verifying materials used in the commentary, and for their help in preparing and proofing the text. To Mrs. Geneva Phillips, Managing Editor of the edition, and to Mrs. Grace Stimson for preparing the manuscript with care for the printer, and to the former for coordinating the work of editors and research assistants, and for overseeing the production of the volume. To the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library for ShortTerm Resident Fellowships awarded to the Editor. To Professor Jack M. Hollander, Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, Ohio State University, for a grant supporting the Editor’s work on this volume at UCLA. To...