Footnotes:
[ [1] The most recent study of Dryden's poem is David M. Vieth's "Irony in Dryden's Ode to Anne Killigrew," Studies in Philology, LXII (January, 1965), pp. 91-100, which lists earlier criticism. Professor Vieth refers to Anne Killigrew's poems several times to illustrate his theory of Dryden's intentions.
[ [2] Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1721), c. 1036. Biographical and critical comment is also to be found in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies (1752), pp. 337-45; T. Cibber, Lives of the Poets (1753), II, 224-6; Ellen Creathorne Clayton, English Female Artists (1876), I, 59-70 and The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchelsea, edited by Myra Reynolds (1903), pp. xxiii-xxiv.
[ [3] A bibliographical analysis of the volume is given by Hugh Macdonald, John Dryden a Bibliography (1939), pp. 42-43.
[ [4] On Elys's life see Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1721), c. 943-44.
=== Transcriber's Note: ===
1.) For explanation of page misnumbering for pages 68 and 69, see Richard Morton's comments in the INTRODUCTION, [p. ix]
2.) Right braces spanning multiple lines in the text have been replaced with vertical "}"'s.
3.) Changed spelling of "pictturesque" to "picturesque" in first paragraph of the INTRODUCTION.
4.) In poem "the Second EPIGRAM" changed spelling of "Bellinda" to "Billinda" in Line 1 to make it consistent with title and TOC.