ESSAYS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN

97341

SELECTED AND EDITED

BY

W. P. KER, M.A.

FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE; HON. LL.D. GLASGOW
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON

VOLUME II

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1900

Oxford

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

BY HORACE HART, M.A.

PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

CONTENTS

PAGE

DEDICATION OF EXAMEN POETICUM (1693)

I

Ха

A DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE ORIGINAL AND PROGRESS OF

SATIRE (1693)

15

APPENDIX A (A SHORT HISTORY OF CRITICISM, BY THE

TRANSLATOR OF ST. EVREMOND (1685)

313

APPENDIX B (AUTHORITIES, CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL) .

INDEX/

317