About this Book

In the Poet to Poet series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Charles Tomlinson selects John Dryden. University and became the leading literary figure of the Restoration period. Poet, playwright, polemicist and critic, Dryden became Poet Laureate in 1668 and Historiographer Royal in 1670. He concluded his vast output with Fables Ancient and Modern (1700). College, Cambridge and taught at the University of Bristol from 1957. His first volume of poems Relations and Contraries, was published in 1951, and has been followed by numerous works, gathered in his Collected Poems of 1985. The Vineyard above the Sea (2002), is his most recent collection.