HE text of the three books of Dryden's Æneid, THE contained in the present volume, has been formed by a careful collation of the first edition (1697) with most of the later editions of the poem, and with the text in Scott's Dryden (ed. Saintsbury, 1882). The readings of 1697, discarded in later editions, have been preserved, where they appear to have remained unaltered during Dryden's lifetime; but the alterations, usually for the better, which occur in the third edition (1701), published very soon after Dryden's death, have been accepted, as they undoubtedly are due to the poet's own revision of his work. The text has been subjected in later editions to some alteration; and Carey, in 1803, introduced a large number of 'improved ' readings of his own. Several of these, as well as one or two for which Carey was not responsible, are to be found in the popular edition of the poem edited by Professor Henry Morley. A list of the more important varieties of reading is given at the end of this book. GRETTON, NORTHANTS. 22 October, 1910. A. H. T. |