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Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature

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An edition of Dryden's poems, with notes by Joseph Warton and others, appeared in 1811, but seems to have been prepared before Scott's edition was published.

The text of this is very incorrect.

Since then the non-dramatic poems have been published several times.

Mr.Christie said in his preface to the Globe edition: "Sir Walter Scott's is the last important edition of Dryden, as it is indeed still the only general collection of his works; and it is to be regretted that that distinguished man did not give as much pains to the purification of Dryden's text as he did to his excellent biography and to the notes which enrich the edition."] [Footnote 163: Editor's Preface.] [Footnote 164: _Dryden_, Vol.

IX, p.


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