John Dryden
Noun
Meaning
the outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700)
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Eliot, T. S., 'John Dryden', in Selected Essays, (London: Faber and Faber, 1932), 308 This line of satire continued with Absalom and Achitophel (1681) and The Medal (1682).
Among the committee's members were John Evelyn (1620–1706), Thomas Sprat (1635–1713), and John Dryden (1631–1700).
Frontispiece and title page from volume II of a 1716 edition of the Works of Virgil translated by John Dryden.
John Dryden in the 16–17th century and Alexander Pope in the 18th century were both well known for their writing in heroic couplets.
John Dryden offered a more common assessment in the Essay of Dramatic Poesie, in which his Avatar Neander compares Shakespeare to Homer and Jonson to Virgil : the former represented profound creativity, the latter polished artifice.
John Dryden wrote an influential essay entitled "A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire" citation that helped fix the definition of satire in the literary world.