Poems (1686) :: Footnotes:

Footnotes:

[1] The most recent study of Dryden's poem is David M. Vieth's "Irony in Dryden's Ode to Anne Killigrew," Studies in Philology, LXII (January, 1965), pp. 91-100, which lists earlier criticism. Professor Vieth refers to Anne Killigrew's poems several times to illustrate his theory of Dryden's intentions.

[2] Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1721), c. 1036. Biographical and critical comment is also to be found in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies (1752), pp. 337-45; T. Cibber, Lives of the Poets (1753), II, 224-6; Ellen Creathorne Clayton, English Female Artists (1876), I, 59-70 and The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchelsea, edited by Myra Reynolds (1903), pp. xxiii-xxiv.

[3] A bibliographical analysis of the volume is given by Hugh Macdonald, John Dryden a Bibliography (1939), pp. 42-43.

[4] On Elys's life see Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1721), c. 943-44.

=== Transcriber's Note: ===
1.) For explanation of page misnumbering for pages 68 and 69, see Richard Morton's comments in the INTRODUCTION, p. ix
2.) Right braces spanning multiple lines in the text have been replaced with vertical "}"'s.
3.) Changed spelling of "pictturesque" to "picturesque" in first paragraph of the INTRODUCTION.
4.) In poem "the Second EPIGRAM" changed spelling of "Bellinda" to "Billinda" in Line 1 to make it consistent with title and TOC.

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