The Correspondence of John Dryden

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The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth century. He defined an age and his newly transcribed disparate correspondence is placed in the context of contemporaneous and current debates about literature, politics and religion. It is also the most important account of the relationship between an author and his bookseller of the time.

The illustrated correspondence contains a full biographical, textual introduction and calendar of letters. It is transcribed diplomatically and structured chronologically, with contextualising sections about particular correspondences.

The readership will be undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students and academics with an interest in seventeenth century literature, politics, religion and culture.

The editor won the MLA Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters.

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'It is astounding to learn that only sixty-two letters, now collected with wonderfully thorough notes by Stephen Bernard and John McTague, survive from such a prolific and public hand. But the molehill is a mountain. Anyone remotely interested in this era will want to know how Englands greatest living poet, in the last year of his life...'
The New Criterion February

Author Bio

Stephen Bernard is an Academic Visitor at the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts

John McTague is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol