“A Crowd of Little Poets”: Dryden’s Use of Milton’s Serpent in his Aeneid, II

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Notes

All references to Dryden’s Dedication and his translations of the Aeneid are from the first edition owned by the Hayden Library of Arizona State University. Unfortunately, the first provides no pagination for the Dedication or line numbers for the poem. The passage I am dealing with is II, 639–18.

From the text of Merritt Y. Hughes, ed., John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose (New York: Odyssey, 1957).

From The “Aeneid” of Henry Howard EarI of Surrey, ed. Florence H. Ridley (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1963). Vol. 26 of University of California Publications in English Studies.

The Aeneids of Virgil. Done into English Verse by William Morris (1876: rpt. New York and London: Longman. Green, 1919), II: 11. 611–13.

The Aeneid Translated into English Prose with an Introduction by W.F. Jackson Knight (1956; rpt. Baltimore: Penguin, 1965), II: 11. 611–13.

Virgil’s Aeneid. Translated and Annotated by Michael Oakley (London: J.M. Dent, 1957; New York: E.P. Dutton. 1957), II: 11. 609–13.