{"product_id":"the-works-of-john-dryden-volume-xx-prose-1691-1698-de-arte-graphica-and-shorter-works-volume-20-hardcover","title":"The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 de Arte Graphica and Shorter Works Volume 20 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Dryden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeorge R. Guffey\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlan Roper\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time since 1695, a complete text of \u003ci\u003eDe Arte Graphica\u003c\/i\u003e as Dryden himself wrote it is available to readers. In all, Volume XX presents six pieces written during Dryden's final decade, each of them either requested by a friend or commissioned by a publisher. Two are translations, three introduce translations made by others, and the sixth introduces an original work by one of Dryden's friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe most recent version of \u003ci\u003eDe Arte Graphica\u003c\/i\u003e, Saintsbury's late nineteenth-century reissue of Scott's edition, based the text of the translated matter on an edition that was heavily revised by someone other than Dryden. In fact, only one of the pieces offered here, the brief \u003ci\u003eCharacter of Saint-Evremond\u003c\/i\u003e, has appeared complete in a twentieth-century edition. The commentary in this volume supplies biographical and bibliographical contexts for these pieces and draws attention to the views on history and historians, poetry and painting, Virgil and translation, which Dryden expresses in them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany other volumes of prose, poetry, and plays are available in the California Edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Works of John Dryden\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume XX has been edited by \u003cb\u003eA. E. Wallace Maurer\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of English at Ohio State University; its text has been established by \u003cb\u003eGeorge R. Guffey\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. \u003cb\u003eAlan Roper\u003c\/b\u003e, the General Editor, and \u003cb\u003eVinton A. Dearing\u003c\/b\u003e, the Textual Editor of the edition, are both Professors of English at UCLA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.76 x 9.75 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43736758845575,"sku":"9780520021334","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/UqO7fst4QH9780520021334.webp?v=1768575053","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-works-of-john-dryden-volume-xx-prose-1691-1698-de-arte-graphica-and-shorter-works-volume-20-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}