Volume 43, Number 11 · June 20, 1996
Goodbye to All That
By James Fenton
The first paragraph of Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesie records the great imperial moment in what the English call the Second Dutch War, and what the Dutch call the Second English War. A naval battle is taking place off Lowestoft, more than a hundred miles from London, but the sound carries as far as the capital. Dryden recalls:
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