The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVIII: Prose: The History of the League, 1684

by John Dryden, Prof. Alan Roper (Editor), Vinton A. Dearing (Editor)

This volume contains Dryden's 1684 translation of Louis Maimbourg's "The History of the League," a work relating to the religious wars of France in the preceding century, and which Dryden used as a commentary on the religious persecutions of his own time in England.

588 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

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John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott called him "Glorious John."