This ode by John Dryden (1631-1700) commemorates the death, and celebrates the short life, of the English composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695).
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An authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry and prose of John Dryden, the most important poet, dramatist, translator, and literary theorist of the...
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“Dryden spent a life at the edge of political crisis,” said Steven Zwicker, the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington...
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John Dryden (1631–1700) is responsible for not just one baseless modern prejudice about English grammar but two. He really has a lot to answer for.
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"For this last half-year I have been troubled with the disease (as I may call it) of translation … " Thus John Dryden begins the preface to...
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This newly discovered portrait is of John Dryden and was painted on his appointment as the country's first official poet laureate nearly 350 years ago.
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George John Dryden, a Canadian man who sought for years to prove that he was the son of former Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker has died.
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Many literary greats have been religious outsiders, and reading them we can relate to our times. This is particularly the case with Dryden.
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John Dryden was born on 9 August 1631 into a puritan family at Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. He was one of fourteen children of Erasmus Dryden and his wife Mary...
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John Dryden, England first poet Laureate wrote a play named after which Mughal emperor in 1675, while the emperor was till ruling.
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