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Notes

 
[1]

"The Earl of Roscommon's Academy," MLN, 49 (1934), 432-437; the manuscript is Mm. 1.47 in vol. 36 of Baker's MSS in the Cambridge University Library. Niemeyer quotes from pp. 39-40 of the manuscript.

[2]

Jacob Tonson, Kit-Cat Publisher (1971), p. 17.

[3]

Macdonald's reasons for his view are based upon statements by Dryden and Tonson which lend themselves to interpretation other than his.

[4]

It will be seen that they omit John Caryll, John Cooper, William Bowles, Knightly Chetwood, and John Stafford.

[5]

Hugh Macdonald, John Dryden, A Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydeniana (1939), p. 81; hereafter Macdonald.

[6]

See David Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (1963), p. 351.

[7]

Letters of John Dryden, ed. Charles E. Ward (1942), p. 129, Hereafter Letters.

[8]

Margaret Boddy in Notes and Queries (April, 1965), p. 150.

[9]

Charles E. Ward, The Life of John Dryden (1961), p. 203.

[10]

See my article in Études Anglaises, 32 (1979), 177-184.

[11]

Lives of the English Poets, ed. G. B. Hill (1905), II. 298.

[12]

Edmond Malone, ed., The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of Dryden 4 vols. (1800), 3, 230.

[13]

Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, 1. 254, n. 5.

[14]

The remaining five are Flatman, Sheeres, Stepney, Prior, and Somers.

[15]

Duke, Stepney, Cooper, Adams, Dickinson, Hervey, Power, Lee, Granville, Cobb, Hare, and Charles Dryden.

[16]

Scrope, Duke, Stepney, Cooper, Flatman, Pulteney, Adams, Power, Lee, Prior, Pope, Allestry, Philips, and Charles Dryden.

[17]

A succession of Henry Cromwells attended Cambridge, so that one more contributor might very well be added to the number of Cambridge men.