University of Melbourne

Copy, on the first six pages of three pairs of conjugate folio leaves, in a collection of printed tracts chiefly relating to the Popish Plot. c.1678.

DrJ 43.945: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

Copy, superscribed Found in M^r Petits study [i.e. ? William Petyt (1636-1707), archivist] 1682, subscribed Per Abr. Cowley.

On an end-paper in a printed exemplum of Cowley's Works (London, 1668).

1668-82.

Edited from this MS by Bald.

CoA 99.8: Abraham Cowley, In Petrum negantem

Edited from this MS by Bald.

First published in R.C. Bald, Three Metaphysical Epigrams, Philological Quarterly 16 (1937), 402-405.