Steven N. Zwicker is Stanley Elkin Professor Emeritus at Washington University, St Louis. He has written widely on early modern poetry and politics, and worked collaboratively with historians and literary critics. As well as editing Dryden previously (Selected Poems, 2001, and 21st-Century Oxford Authors: John Dryden, 2020), he has edited the Cambridge Companions to English Literature, 1650–1750 (1998), John Dryden (2004), and Andrew Marvell (2011); a volume on Lord Rochester with Matthew Augustine; and, with Derek Hirst, Andrew Marvell: Orphan of the Hurricane (2012).

• Introducing Dryden's prose; Collecting Dryden's prose; Note on the text; Chronology; 1. Ancients and Moderns; 2. Courting and Caressing; 3. A Life in the Theatre; 4. Translation: Mastering his Author's Language and his Own; 5. Among his Readers; The Thread of my Discourse; Commentary and notes.

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