John Dryden

John Dryden (born the August 19th 1631 with Adwinkle, Northamptonshire - died the May 12th 1700) is a poet and a playwright English having exerted a strong influence at the 17th century.

Biography

John Dryden started to make worms with the college and was throughout his life a writer by profession. Its first parts, often of the heroic Tragedy S, met very variable successes. It began in front of the public by stanzas with the praise from Cromwell (1658)

Two year-after, it celebrated the return of Charles II of England, in a poem entitled: Astrea missed ; it also composed in the honor of this prince poetry Annus Mirabilis in 1667. It in reward was named Poète Prize winner in 1670. These parts and poetries were used to make him a name and to make known its royalist feelings .

He devoted himself then to the theater, made comedies and the tragedies, and obtained during thirty years an uninterrupted continuation of success of which:

  • rival Women
  • Gift Sebastien and the Conquest of Grenade .

Dryden was also exerted in the satirical kind, publishing political satires and arts persons in worms, inter alia Absalon and Achitophel in 1681 (against the revolt of Monmouth) and MacFlecknoe in 1682 (against the poet Thomas Shadwell), which attracted many enemies to him and exposed it even to ill treatments.

It had been made catholic under Jacques II, little before the revolution of 1688: also it lost, under William of Orange, his title of Poète Prize winner and them advantages which were attached there. Not having more other resource which its talent, it went back to work, though already old man. At this point in time it translated many works of Virgile, between 1697 and 1700.

At the same time, it composed several of its best works: its translation of the Énéide, 1697; its translations of Persian Juvénal and , like its Fables , 1698, and most beautiful of its odes, the Festival of Alexandre , for the Holy-Cecile (put in music by Henry Purcell).

The influence of Dryden, in particular as a poet, was immense at the same time of sound living and at the 18th century. Its poems were taken for models by poets like Alexander Pope or Samuel Johnson. This last summarized the opinion of its century in a sentence: “ Dryden refined the language, improved the feelings and made shine English poetry ”.

In addition to its works in worms, it composed some in prose of them; more estimated the Test is on dramatic poetry , in dialog.

Its reputation eroded however at the 19th century, and the writer did not find any more its old will since then have. Although the genius of versification and the strength of the expression are generally recognized to him, sometimes one reproaches Dryden for having a rather common spirit and for missing perspicacity.

John Dryden is buried with the Abbaye of Westminster. His/her oldest son, Charles Dryden, became the chamberlain of the Pape Innocent XII.

Works

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