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...Dryden," Professor Elton, Sever...
...seventeenth century have been bought to help round out the White collection. Various single and rare volumes, picked up from time to time, render more complete the collections of certain authors that are already exceptionally well represented in the Library,--for example,--Donne (including a valuable manuscript), Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gay, and Gray. Another subject that these gifts have helped us to build up is French literature, especially poetry and drama, of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,--a class in which the Library is still lamentably weak. In an entirely different field, there was bought a collection of nearly...
...Dryden as a Critic," Professor Elton, Sever...
Says Poet Edith Sitwell of Poet Pope: "I may say, with the deepest humility, what Pope is reputed to have said of Dryden: 'Had I been born early enough, I should have known and loved him. . . . His principal fault was that he suffered from a constitutional inhibition against speaking the truth, save on occasions when, if we except the esthetic point of view, the truth would have been better left unspoken. But I have so often found both these faults in myself, that I do not dare to blame them...
...Dryden: Dramas and Dramatic Theory 1", Professor Greenough, Sever...