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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.
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 ...
Criticism has been a key part of democracy, its functions, and its development throughout history. Some critics call upon the constitutional regime to be true to its own highest principles; others reject the values promoted by constitutional democracy. [1] Plato famously opposed democracy, arguing for a 'government of the best qualified'.
John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy; Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux: The Art of Poetry; John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; John Dennis: The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry; Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism; Joseph Addison: On the Pleasures of the Imagination (Spectator essays) Giambattista Vico: The New Science
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
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 ]
Criticism of democracy – Critiques of democratic political systems; Dominant ideology – Concept in Marxist philosophy; Doxa – Greek word meaning common belief or popular opinion; NPC (meme) – An insult that implies a person lacks critical thinking; Tragedy of the commons – Self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
Dryden aimed to increase the English people’s literary reputation by appropriating the greatest traditions in literature and developing them into new genres. An interesting feature of the preface is that Dryden did not understand Chaucer's Middle English prosody and dismissed his versification as irregular, because Middle English ...