John Dryden

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Standard Name: Dryden, John
Birth Name: John Dryden
John Dryden, drawn by Jonathan Richardson after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller of 1697. His body (to the shoulders) is seen in profile, head turned towards the viewer.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Haywood
This was the first periodical for women to take advantage of the monthly format, which was still fairly new. Unlike other magazines, it used fiction as its staple, while also including advice on behaviour, relationships...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
This poem suggests that women are culpably hungry for flattery (as the poet's husband felt she often was); she declares herself willing to bear sole responsibility for her sexual reputation: it will be her own...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Seward
The sonnets are written in strict Milton ic form. One of their favourite themes is love of nature and the countryside; one or two deal with Seward's love for Honora Sneyd . In rendering Horace...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Eliza Bleecker
She used the writing of the pastoral to build a relationship with Tomhanick, Americanizing the topographical tradition to create a suitable backdrop for the life of a poet. Her work includes meditations on death...
Intertextuality and Influence Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
MCH raises the tone of her work with chapter-headings from Wordsworth , Shakespeare , Dryden , and others, most of them asserting the value of the poor and powerless, or protesting about the deficiencies of...
Intertextuality and Influence Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
The title-page quotes Dryden . The story opens in Scotland, twenty miles from Glasgow, with the humble clergyman Dr Woodville giving reluctant permission for his unsophisticated young daughter, Anna, to attend a charity ball...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Tollet
The long epistle mentioned on the title-page, a philosophical poem On the Origin of the World, and the two Latin psalms are the works that show most revision since the earlier volume.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
37
A...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Boyd
The two subsidiary poems are Macareus to Æolus, Done in imitation of Dryden 's Canace to Macareus and Æolus to Pluto.
Boyd, Elizabeth. Variety. T. Warner and B. Creake, 1727.
77ff, 87ff
They and Variety are whimsical, contorted, paradoxical—and brilliant. They revel in...
Intertextuality and Influence Iris Murdoch
This celebration of postwar modernity has as epigraph Dryden 's welcome to a new century: 'Tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
497
It clearly reflects the link...
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs Ross
Southampton turns out to be too bashful to speak in parliament, and also too weak to withstand the mockery of rakish friends for his fidelity to his wife. He suffers agony of conscience over his...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Boyd
A first prologue addresses Pope , and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare (The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden (Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB 's performance in...
Intertextuality and Influence Clara Reeve
In this ground-breaking study CR provides the first full critical and historical account of the modern novel form (the one most used by women writers), and defends the genre of romance against its many attackers...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Fanshawe
The poems by CF include an Elegy on the Abrogation of the Birthnight Ball (her lament, in the person of an elderly beau, for the passing of the old-fashioned minuet: an orgy of grandiose parody...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Plumptre
AP tackles, more boldly than any novelist before her, the unwritten rule whereby a heroine has to be beautiful. She also reverses conventional gender expectations in highlighting the inconstancy, self-indulgence, and emotionalism of men and...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Barker
JB writes to one male friend (my Adopted Brother) on his approaching marriage, not to congratulate but to dissuade.
Barker, Jane. Poetical Recreations. Benjamin Crayle, 1687.
11
She reflects her intimate knowledge of the work of Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley

Timeline

November 1681: John Dryden published his political satire...

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November 1681

John Dryden published his political satire Absalom and Achitophel, at Charles II 's personal suggestion, just a week before the first Earl of Shaftesbury 's trial for treason.
Sherburn, George, and Donald F. Bond. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century. 2nd ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
725-6

October 1682: John Dryden anonymously published his mock-heroic...

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October 1682

John Dryden anonymously published his mock-heroic satire Mac Flecknoe (probably written in 1676).
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

1684: The first volume appeared of Miscellany Poems,...

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1684

The first volume appeared of Miscellany Poems, an influential poetry anthology connected with the names of Jacob Tonson the elder, publisher, and John Dryden ; the final part came out in 1709.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
54
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

11 April 1687: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther, A...

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11 April 1687

John Dryden 's The Hind and the Panther, A Poem, In Three Parts, was licensed for print: a vindication of the Catholic Church against the Church of England which, unusually, takes the form of...

22 November 1687: For this day's celebrations Dryden wrote...

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22 November 1687

For this day's celebrations Dryden wrote his Song for St. Cecilia's Day.
Dryden, John. Selected Poetry and Prose of John Dryden. Editor Miner, Earl, Modern Library College Editions, The Modern Library, 1985.
503

January 1692-October 1694: Peter Anthony Motteux edited The Gentleman's...

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January 1692-October 1694

Peter Anthony Motteux edited The Gentleman's Diary; or, The Monthly Miscellany, which combined aspects of the almanac and the periodical, and aimed particularly at women readers.
Miegon, Anna E. The Ladies Diary and the Emergence of the Almanac for Women, 1704-1753. Simon Fraser University, Sept. 2008.
78, 98-9,100, 104

1693: John Dryden published his edition of Juvenal's...

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1693

John Dryden published his edition of Juvenal 's Satires, translated into English poetry by various hands, including that of Aphra Behn .
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

Mid-January 1694: John Dryden's last play, the tragedy Love...

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Mid-January 1694

John Dryden 's last play, the tragedy Love Triumphant, was performed at Drury Lane ; it was printed the same year.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

22 November 1697: For this day Dryden wrote his Alexander's...

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22 November 1697

For this day Dryden wrote his Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique, An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day; it was performed to music by Jeremiah Clarke .
Dryden, John. Selected Poetry and Prose of John Dryden. Editor Miner, Earl, Modern Library College Editions, The Modern Library, 1985.
503

By late 1697: John Dryden published by subscription his...

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By late 1697

John Dryden published by subscription his verse translation of Virgil 's Works; it was the first time a literary work by a living author had been published by this means.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

March 1700: John Dryden published his last work: a volume...

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March 1700

John Dryden published his last work: a volume of translations and imitations, Fables, Ancient and Modern.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

1701: The year after Dryden's death, his Comedies,...

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1701

The year after Dryden 's death, his Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas were first collected and published, both in two independent volumes and as part of a four-volume Works.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

19 June 1725: Dorothy Stanley, née Milborne, published...

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19 June 1725

Dorothy Stanley , née Milborne, published by subscription Sir Philip Sidney 's Arcadia Moderniz'd, in four books (coinciding with the thirteenth edition of the original romance).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Mitchell, Marea. “Dorothy Stanley’s Enterprise: Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia Moderniz’d (1725)”. Sidney Journal, No. 28, 2010, pp. 63-76.
Mitchell, Marea. “Awakening Other Spirits: Dorothy Stanley’s Arcadia and the Apparatus of Authorship”. Parergon, No. 29, 2012, pp. 113-31.

February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...

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February 1930

D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, which includes bad poetry by John Dryden , John Keats , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning along with other canonical figures.
Byatt, A. S. Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction. Editor Bell, Hazel K., University of Toronto, 2001.
110
Lewis, D. B. Wyndham et al. The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. 2nd edition, Capricorn, 1962.

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