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John Dryden

Overview

John Dryden (; 19 August [O.S. 9 August] 1631 – 12 May [O.S. 1 May] 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating 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. Romantic writer Sir Walter Scott called him "Glorious John".

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• Epicurus
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Related ideas

• Matthew Arnold
• Romantic poetry
• Glorious Revolution
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Homer
• Jonathan Swift
• Bachelor of Arts
• Satires (Juvenal)
• John Milton
• Joseph Addison
• Oliver Cromwell
• The Tempest
• Puritans
• Sophocles
• Walter Scott
• T. S. Eliot
• Trinity College, Cambridge
• William Shakespeare
• W. H. Auden
• William Wordsworth
• Lucretius
• Aeneid
• Ovid
• Alexander Pope

Place in the tradition

Part of Classicism.

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