[Footnote 162: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 433. Scott's _Dryden_ appeared in 1808, and with some slight changes in 1821; as reedited by Mr. Saintsbury it was published in 1882-1893. It was the first complete and uniform edition of Dryden's works, and it remains the only one. The dramatic works had appeared in folio in 1701. They were edited by Congreve in 1717, and Scott used Congreve's text. The non-dramatic poems were also published in 1701 in folio. They appeared in more convenient forms in 1741, 1743, and 1760, but of these editions only the last was reasonably complete. In 1800 the Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works were edited by Malone, who added a Life of Dryden which has furnished a large part of the material used by biographers since his time. This biography was badly written, but with Johnson's brilliant essay it was the only Life of Dryden before Scott's that was worth considering. 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. 226.] [Footnote 165: _Ibid._, Vol. IX, p. 2.] [Footnote 166: In this connection Scott's review of Todd's edition of Spenser is interesting. He takes exception to the lack of an appearance of continuity in the biography, caused by the long quotations included in the body of the narrative; and censures the editor for not having used the history of Italian poetry in elucidating Spenser's work. (_Edinburgh Review_, October, 1805.)] [Footnote 167: Review of Todd's _Spenser_.] [Footnote 168: _Dryden_, Vol. I, p. 6.] [Footnote 169: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 229; and _Dryden_, Vol. I, p. 6.] [Footnote 170: _Dryden_, Vol. I, pp. 402-3.] [Footnote 171: _Dryden_, Vol. I, p. 403.] [Footnote 172: _Ibid._, p. 404. Mr. Saintsbury thinks that Scott's prefatory introductions to the plays are often "both meagre and depreciatory"; also that Scott's judgment on Dryden's letters is rather harsh, for him, and that after he had begun to write novels he would not have been so impatient of remarks on "turkeys, marrow-puddings, and bacon."] [Footnote 173: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 405.] [Footnote 174: _Ibid._, Vol. X, p. 307 ff.] [Footnote 175: _Ibid._, Vol. XIV, pp. 136 and 146.] [Footnote 176: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 405.]