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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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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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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Over the New Year break, I became obsessed with a BBC radio series that is currently available to U.S. listeners as a weekly podcast.
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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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Ted Hughes was named England's new poet laureate today. The son of a Yorkshire carpenter, Mr. Hughes succeeds Sir John Betjeman who died...
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This exhibit looks at two major London publishing houses that illustrate this transition: the firm headed by John Ogilby from 1650 to 1676; and the family...
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In the Poet's Corner, TS Eliot and Alfred, Lord Tennyson are memorialized together the leading Victorian poet and the iconic poet of Modernism side by side.
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Ted Hughes, England's new poet laureate, is perhaps better known in this country for his brief and tragic marriage to the late Sylvia Plath...
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