ABSTRACT
Extract from the Epistle Dedicatory addressed to the Duke of Newcastle by Congreve in The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: in Six Volumes, 1717, i. William Congreve (1670–1729) met Dryden when he came to London from Trinity College, Dublin, after the Revolution of 1688. His commendatory lines introduced Dryden’s Persius in 1693; he was one of the ’Eminent Hands’ who helped Drydenin the collaborative translation of Juvenal (published with Persius) and of Ovid’s Art of Love (published in 1709). Cf. supra, No. 45.
