Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-289) and index.
Contents:
Composing a literary life: introduction / Steven N. Zwicker -- Dryden and the theatrical imagination / Stuart Sherman -- Dryden and the energies of satire / Ronald Paulson -- Dryden and the imperial imagination / Laura Brown -- Dryden and the invention of Augustan culture / Paul Davis -- Dryden's triplets / Christopher Ricks -- Dryden's London / Harold Love -- Dryden's theatre and the passions of politics / Paulina Kewes -- Dryden's anonymity / John Mullan -- Dryden and the modes of restoration sociability / Katsuhiro Engetsu -- Dryden and patronage / John Barnard -- Dryden and political allegiance / Annabel Patterson -- The piety of John Dryden / John Spurr -- Dryden's 'Fables' and the judgment of art / Anne Cotterill -- Dryden and the problem of literary modernity: epilogue / Steven N. Zwicker.
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