John Dryden

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Standard Name: Dryden, John
Birth Name: John Dryden

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Literary responses Anne Killigrew
AK 's death was lamented in at least three poems. Her father printed in her PoemsDryden 's ode on her death, which links her painting and poetry, and subordinates both arts to her virtue...
Literary responses Mary Lady Chudleigh
Dryden showed his copy of the poem to William Walsh and William Wycherley , and said all three writers agreed that Chudleigh's was the best of all the poems he had received in tribute to...
Literary responses Anna Steele
The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book.
The Academy.
11 (3 February 1877): 91
Occupation John Milton
As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime...
Occupation William Congreve
Congreve was twenty-one when on 22 December 1691 he licensed his first book, a short novel called Incognita: or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd, which was published the following year.
Congreve, William. Incognita. Scolar Press, 1971.
title-page
He moved quickly into...
Performance of text Alison Fell
AF was a constant source of scenes, burlesques, and improvisations for performance by the Women's Liberation Street Theatre Group . She also wrote for a number of underground or radical papers: Ink, Islington Gutter...
Performance of text Aphra Behn
An amateur performance at Court of Dryden 's The Indian Emperor used a prologue which AB included in her Covent Garden Drolery, but probably did not write.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Author summary Aphra Behn
It is difficult to summarise AB 's immense and complex importance for the history of women's writing. Virginia Woolf said she deserved from all women a tribute of flowers because she was the first to...
Author summary Elizabeth Thomas
ET (dubbed Corinna by Dryden and writing mostly in the early eighteenth century) was a poet of real stature and an interesting letter-writer. Her few authentic works have been upstaged by the many miscellaneous writings...
Author summary Anne Killigrew
AK (also a painter) was a fine Restoration-period poet, who has the misfortune of being better known for Dryden 's praises of her than for her actual work.
Textual Features Sarah Green
M. G. Lewis is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees...
Textual Features Aphra Behn
She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation)
Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn. Editor Todd, Janet, William Pickering, 1992, 7 Vols.
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keeps women from reading great writers...
Textual Features Elizabeth Cooper
She notes that poets have lived difficult and unappreciated lives, and that many have been forgotten. Quoting a remark by Pope (that time, which has made Chaucer unintelligible, will one day do the same with...
Textual Features Anna Seward
The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS 's strictures on John Weston 's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden with Pope to the advantage of...
Textual Features Judith Drake
Its boldness in argument—seeking to lift women to an Equallity [sic]
Drake, Judith. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. A. Roper, E. Wilkinson, and R. Clavel, 1696, http://U of A, Special Collections.
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with men—may stem from its anonymity. It is also interesting as literary criticism, notably on Dryden , Wycherley , Congreve , and Locke

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