A collection of essays examining circumstances and conditions of poets' work. With Dryden as a central figure, the author describes the perplexities and felicity of genius in writers such as Donne, Hobbes and Marvell.
'... his unravelling of friendly generosity and proud reservation in the text and circumstances of Dryden's 'To the Memory of Mr Oldham' seems set to become a classic of criticism.'
Roger D. Sell. Abo Akademi University. Review of English Studies Vol XLV
