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

For the first time since 1695, a complete text of "De Arte Graphica" as Dryden himself wrote it is available to readers. In all, Volume XX presents six pieces written during Dryden's final decade, each of them either requested by a friend or commissioned by a publisher. Two are translations, three introduce translations made by others, and the sixth introduces an original work by one of Dryden's friends.
The most recent version of "De Arte Graphica," Saintsbury's late nineteenth-century reissue of Scott's edition, based the text of the translated matter on an edition that was heavily revised by someone other than Dryden. In fact, only one of the pieces offered here, the brief "Character of Saint-Evremond," has appeared complete in a twentieth-century edition. The commentary in this volume supplies biographical and bibliographical contexts for these pieces and draws attention to the views on history and historians, poetry and painting, Virgil and translation, which Dryden expresses in them.
Many other volumes of prose, poetry, and plays are available in the California Edition of "The Works of John Dryden,"

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Works of John Dryden, 20
Release date:	May 1990
First published:	1991
Authors:	John Dryden
Editors:	George R. Guffey • Alan Roper • Vinton A. Dearing • A. E. Wallace Maurer
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	544
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-02133-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-02133-9
Barcode:	9780520021334

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