text: " Up to this time Dryden now in his thirty-third year had not written much; but in his "Heroic Stanzas on the death of Oliver Cromwell " "Astrea Redux or Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Sacred Majesty " and "A Panegyric on his Coronation " he had not only shown his measureless superiority to the Sprats and Wallers--poetasters of the same class after all though Sprat was always but a small fish while Waller was long thought like a whale--but manifested a vigour of thought and expression that gave assurance of a veritable poet