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| John Dryden |
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| 1631–1700, English poet, dramatist, and critic, b. Northamptonshire, grad. Cambridge, 1654. He had a long and varied career as a dramatist. His most notable plays include the heroic dramas, The Conquest of Granada (2 parts, 1670–71) and Aurenz-Zebe (1675); his blank-verse masterpiece, All for Love (1677), a retelling of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra; and the comedy Marriage à la Mode (1672)…. Throughout his life he wrote brilliant critical prefaces, prologues, and discourses, dealing with the principles of literary excellence. The best example is his Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668).—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  dr d´n from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- All for Love
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XVIII, Part 1.
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- Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXIX.
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- Bartlett’s Dryden Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Dryden, John, 17790 to 17858
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- Virgil’s Æneid
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XIII.
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- ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE
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- Ah, how sweet it is to love! (OBEV); Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music (Gold); A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687 (OBEV); Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687 (Gold); Hidden Flame (OBEV); Ode (OBEV); Song to a Fair Young Lady (OBEV)
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- WRITINGS ABOUT DRYDEN
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- “John Dryden”
Chapter by A.W. Ward with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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