John Dryden - Poet, Satire, Restoration: Since the publication of Annus Mirabilis 12 years earlier, Dryden had given almost all his time to...
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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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Samuel Johnson - Poet, Critic, Lexicographer: Johnson's last great work, Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English...
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The idea that ending a sentence with a preposition is slumming makes no sense and never has. Clarity is not at issue.
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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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The idea that it should be avoided came from writers who were trying to align the language with Latin, but there is no reason to suggest...
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Back in the 17th century, there was a move to create rules for English, based on Latin. The man behind it, poet John Dryden, thought that...
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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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The greatest epic poem in the English language, John Milton's Paradise Lost, has divided critics – but its influence on English literature...
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Geoffrey Chaucer was “plucky and slippy at football, hockey, and other games” according to the nineteenth-century editor and ardent...
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