FINIS.
ERRATA.
In Mr. Drydens Ode, Stanzo 5. at the end of the first line read [None.] p. 9. v. 6. for her r. its. p. 24. v. 1. for renown'd r. renowned. p. 38. v. last but one, for renounced r. renowned. p. 57. v. 1, instead of the Interrogation-point, make a Comma. p. 97. v. 13. r. burn'd with a nobler fier.
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.