This book is part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, detailed notes to each poem and a selection of criticism. The poems in this collection are grouped thematically to reflect the preoccupations of the age. During an age of civil war and the beheading of kings, Dryden - poet laureate - remained a fervent royalist. Among many other poems and satires, this edition includes his greatest work, Annus Mirabalis, Absalom and Achitophel, Mac Flecknoe and Fables Ancient and Modern.