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...by Tonson in 1694 and published in 1697. Dryden was now the grand old man of English letters and was often seen at Will’s Coffee-House chatting with younger writers. His last work for Tonson was Fables Ancient and Modern (1700), which were mainly verse adaptations from the works of Ovid, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Giovanni Boccaccio, introduced with a critical preface. He died in 1700 and was...
...of Virgil, believed to be the first English publishing venture to earn considerable money for the author. He also published anthologies of poetry edited by Dryden (from 1684); the same writer’s Fables Ancient and Modern (1700; translations from Homer, Ovid, Boccaccio, and Chaucer); poetry by Alexander Pope (1709); and various works by Joseph Addison. In 1712 he became copublisher of...
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