New Grub Street by George Gissing: “Will you credit that he twice or thrice referred to Settle's reply to "Absalom and Achitophel" by the title of "Absalom Transposed," when every schoolgirl knows that the thing was called "Achitophel Transposed"!”
Don Juan by George Gordon Byron: “The 'little boatman' and his 'Peter Bell' Can sneer at him who drew 'Achitophel'!”
Camilla by Frances Burney: “He's every thing by turns, and nothing long. [Footnote 3: Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel.]”
L'Homme qui Rit by Victor Hugo: “"_Dryden is the greatest poet of England, and of the century_," said Atterbury, the translator of "Achitophel."”