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Dryden, John
Dryden, John (1631–1700) English poet and playwright. He became known for his
Heroic Stanzas on Oliver Cromwell's death (1658); diplomatically followed by
Astraea Redux (1660), praising Charles II. He was poet laureate from 1668 to 1688, when James II was ousted in the Glorious Revolution. Other poems include
Annus Mirabilis (1667), the satires
Absalom and Achitophel (1681), the allegory
The Hind and the Panther (1687), and the ode
Alexander's Feast (1693). Dryden also wrote numerous fine plays, his best-known are
All for Love (1678) and
Marriage á la mode (1673).
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Dryden Rules
Magazine article from: The Hudson Review; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding...his frequent critiques of English poets, this one on John Dryden: I have stopped reading Dryden. He is very like Chaucer, isn't he? I mean, however...
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Dryden's Aeneis 2.718-41.(John Dryden)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...In his translation of this passage, Dryden describes the old man's reaction thus...exemplar of the virtues of imitatio, Dryden is often at his most ingenious when he...Virgil most closely. Here, however, Dryden makes a decisive departure from the Latin...
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Dryden gets another save He helps turn around Leafs
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 5/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...represented a new height, even for Dryden, now 51, slightly gray at the...Fort Erie and Ontario and Canada, Dryden and John Rigas, the owner of the Buffalo...Colorado in the Stanley Cup finals. Dryden's brief speech, at the base of...
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Dryden in his time & ours.(John Dryden)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...authors, both called John, had one of the strangest...The younger scribe: Dryden, forty-one, far better...Part of the pleasure in Dryden's verse comes from the...Plath, Anne Sexton, and John Berryman--"three persons...Ronald Knox's deft Dryden parody, Absolute and...
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John Dryden's 'Aeneis': A Hero in Enlightenment Mode.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Poems of John Dryden. Vol. III: 1686-1693; Vol. IV...pp. 95 [pounds sterling] each. John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays. Ed. by PAUL...pbk 65) [pounds sterling]. John Dryden's 'Aeneis': A Hero in Enlightenment...
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Dryden's "Cinyras and Myrrha".(John Dryden)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; The numerous translations Dryden made late in his poetic career have...Keith Walker's recent anthology of Dryden's writings for the Oxford Author Series...will follow this approach, analyzing Dryden's use of incest in his translation...
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John Dryden: Tercentary Essays.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Poems of John Dryden. Vol. III: 1686-1693; Vol. IV...pp. 95 [pounds sterling] each. John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays. Ed. by PAUL...pbk 65) [pounds sterling]. John Dryden's 'Aeneis': A Hero in Enlightenment...
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John Dryden and John Denham.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; In 1692, more than two decades after the death of John Denham, John Dryden paid homage to the poet as he recalled a conversation...imitate in my Verses, the turns of Mr. Waller, and Sir John Denham; of which, he repeated many to me: I had...
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NASA DRYDEN PARTICIPATING IN AIRVENTURE 2009 AT OSKOSH
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/24/2009; 610 words
; ...on Sunday, Aug. 2. Several Dryden personnel will also participate...student opportunities, presented by Dryden co-op students John Bird and Erin Waggoner, to briefings...Aperture Radar, or UAVSAR, by Dryden project manager Thomas Mace and...
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The Poems of John Dryden, vol. III: 1686-1693; vol. IV: 1693-1696.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Poems of John Dryden. Vol. III: 1686-1693; Vol. IV...pp. 95 [pounds sterling] each. John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays. Ed. by PAUL...pbk 65) [pounds sterling]. John Dryden's 'Aeneis': A Hero in Enlightenment...
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Dryden, John (1631–1700)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
DRYDEN, JOHN (1631 – 1700) DRYDEN, JOHN (1631 – 1700), English poet, playwright, critic, and translator. Dryden was born on 9 August 1631 at Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, the son of Erasmus Dryden and Mary (nee Pickering...
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John Dryden
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Dryden The English author John Dryden (1631-1700) is best known as a poet and critic. He also...almost 30 plays and was one of the great dramatists of his time. John Dryden was born on Aug. 9, 1631, in Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire...
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Dryden, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Dryden, John (1631–1700), was educated...Howard (whose sister, Lady Elizabeth, Dryden married in 1663), the earl of Clarendon...Troilus and Cressida (1679), reveal Dryden's considerable interest in philosophical...
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Prudential Financial Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...CENTURY ORIGINS A Yale dropout named John F. Dryden established the forerunner of Prudential...first directors failed to recognize Dryden's vision or organizational talents...the directors finally elected John Dryden president by one vote. He served...
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The Prudential Insurance Company of America
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...Prudential Insurance Company of America. John F. Dryden, the founder of Prudential, studied...the directors failed to recognize Dryden ’ s vision or organizational...and finally the directors elected John Dryden president by one vote. He served...
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