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  2. John Dryden - Wikipedia

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    Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was the rector of All Saints.He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Barone t (1553–1632), and wife Frances Wilkes, Puritan landowning gentry who supported the Puritan cause and ...

  3. Essay of Dramatick Poesie - Wikipedia

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    John Dryden ' s Essay of Dramatick Poesy [1] was likely written in 1666 during the Great Plague of London and published in 1668. Dryden's claim in this essay was that poetic drama with English and Spanish influence [2] is a justifiable art form when compared to traditional French poetry.

  4. Mac Flecknoe - Wikipedia

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    Mac Flecknoe (full title: Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blue-Protestant Poet, T.S. [1]) is a verse mock-heroic satire written by John Dryden. It is a direct attack on Thomas Shadwell, another prominent poet of the time. It opens with the lines: Bust of Mac Flecknoe, from an 18th-century edition of Dryden's poems

  5. Political poetry - Wikipedia

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    "The East of the Jordan", by Zeev Jabotinsky, is another poem; a more modern poetry book is Democracy in Contemporary U.S. Women's Poetry written by Nicky Marsh; [7] political poetry originates from all around the world, however, it is viewed with distinctive variations. Through the reader's point of view, political poetry conveys and expresses ...

  6. 1668 in poetry - Wikipedia

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    Sir John Denham, Poems and Translations: With The Sophy, the first collected edition of Denham's poems [1] John Dryden, Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy, criticism [2] Richard Flecknoe, Sir William D'Avenant's Voyage to the Other World: with his Adventures in the Poets Elizium: A poetical fiction, published anonymously [1]

  7. English literature - Wikipedia

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    John Dryden (1631–1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the "Age of Dryden". He established the heroic couplet as a standard form of English poetry.

  8. Category:John Dryden - Wikipedia

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    Adaptations of works by John Dryden (1 C) W. Works by John Dryden (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "John Dryden" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.

  9. Religio Laici - Wikipedia

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    Religio Laici, Or A Layman's Faith (1682) is a poem written in heroic couplets by John Dryden.It was written in response to the publication of an English translation of the Histoire critique due vieux testament by the French cleric Father Richard Simon.