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Books about John Dryden:

• Among My Books (first series), by James Russell Lowell (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of John Dryden (from the Dramatic Works, 1882 Paterson edition, volume I), by Walter Scott, ed. by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
• The Poetical Works of John Dryden, With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes (2 volumes), by John Dryden, ed. by George Gilfillan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text

• Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice (Yale Studies in English #4; Boston et al.: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1898), by Margaret Pollock Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Herculean Hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and Dryden (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Chatto and Windus, 1962), by Eugene M. Waith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Concordance to the Poetical Works of John Dryden (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957), ed. by Guy Montgomery and Lester A. Hubbard, contrib. by Mary Jackman, Helen S. Agoa, and Josephine Miles (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), by James D. Garrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Epic to Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1974), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF at Ohio State)

• Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice (Yale Studies in English #4; Boston et al.: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1898), by Margaret Pollock Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dryden in Revolutionary England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David Bywaters (HTML at UC Press)

Books by John Dryden:

• Dryden, John, 1631-1700: Absalom and Achitophel (based on the second edition, 1681) (HTML with commentary at Toronto)
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700, trans.: The Aeneid, by Virgil
  • HTML with commentary at Perseus
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • Gutenberg text
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700: All for Love
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700, contrib.: The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Modernis'd by Several Hands (3 volumes in 1; London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1741), by Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. by George Ogle, also contrib. by John Urry, Thomas Betterton, Samuel Cobb, Samuel Boyse, Henry Brooke, Alexander Pope, Jeremiah Markland, and Mr. Grosvenor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700: Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry (Gutenberg text)
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700: Dryden's Palamon and Arcite, ed. by George Edwin Eliot, contrib. by Geoffrey Chaucer (Gutenberg text)
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (third edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1918), ed. by Thomas Arnold and William T. Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700: Fables Ancient And Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, With Orginal Poems, by Mr. Dryden (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1700), contrib. by Homer, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700: Mac Flecknoe
  • HTML with commentary at Toronto
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700: The Medal: A Satire Against Sedition (HTML at Poets' Corner)
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700, trans.: Metamorphoses, by Ovid, ed. by Samuel Garth, also trans. by Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, and William Congreve (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700: Of Dramatic Poesie (HTML at Toronto)
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes (2 volumes), ed. by George Gilfillan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700, contrib.: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books, With Introductions and Notes (Harvard Classics v39; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1910), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, also contrib. by William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, and Hippolyte Taine
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700, contrib.: Shakespeare Adaptations: The Tempest, The Mock Tempest, and King Lear (London: J. Cape, 1922), ed. by Montague Summers, also contrib. by William Shakespeare, William D'Avenant, Thomas Duffett, and Nahum Tate
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700, contrib.: The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island: A Comedy, As it is Now Acted at His Highness the Duke of York's Theatre (adapted by Dryden and D'Avenant; London: Printed by T. N. for H. Herringman, 1674), by William Shakespeare, also contrib. by William D'Avenant (page images here at Penn)
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700, trans.: The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aneis (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed by J. Tonson, 1709), by Virgil (page images at HathiTrust)

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