Dryden's "Cinyras and Myrrha".(John Dryden) The Explicator | March 22, 2004| | COPYRIGHT 2004 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

The numerous translations Dryden made late in his poetic career have provoked increasing critical attention from scholars and students in the past few decades. Keith Walker's recent anthology of Dryden's writings for the Oxford Author Series devotes most of its pages to these translations, including Virgil's Georgics and the Fables in their entirety. How to approach these texts is a vexed issue: Do we read them primarily as translations or as original poems? One solution, typified by the work of scholars Steven N. Zwicker and David Bywaters, leans toward the latter approach ...

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