The complete online text of The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 by John Dryden.

The English author John Dryden (1631-1700) is best known as a poet and critic. He also wrote almost 30 plays and was one of the great dramatists of his time. John Dryden was born on Aug. 9, 1631, in Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire, in the parsonage of All S...

After John Donne and John Milton, John Dryden was the greatest English poet of the seventeenth century. After William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, he was the greatest playwright. And he has no peer as a writer of prose, especially literary criticism, and...

After John Donne and John Milton, John Dryden was the greatest English poet of the seventeenth century. After William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, he was the greatest playwright. And he has no peer as a writer of prose, especially literary criticism, and...

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The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson. By Blanford Parker. (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought). Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. ix+262 pp. [pound]37.50; $59.95. The Just and the Lively: The Literary...