Dryden A Collection of Critical Essays Author:Bernard N. Schilling (editor) Literary history provides few figures whose prestige has fluctuated so widely over the years, or who have offered so tempting a target for critical arrows, as the seventeenth century poet John Dryden. In this volume, leading critical voices of the twentieth century reappraise Dryden as poet, dramatist, satirist, and above all as mirror of one of... more » England's most turbulent periods.« less