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Dryden, John
(b. Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, August 9th, 1631; d. London, May 1st, 1701). “Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell” (1658); “Astræa Redux” (1660); “To His Sacred Majesty” (1661); “To my Lord Chancellor” (1662); “The Wild Gallant” (1663); “The Rival Ladies” (1663); “The Indian Queen” (with Sir Robert Howard) (1664); “The Indian Emperor” (1665); “Annus Mirabilis” (1667); “Essay of Dramatic Poesie” (1667); “Secret Love” (1667); “Sir Martin Marr-all” (1667); “All for Love” (1668); “An Evening’s Love” (1668); “Tyrannic Love” (1669); “Of Heroick Plays” and “The Conquest of Granada” (1672); “Marriage à la Mode” (1672), “The Assignation” (1672); “Amboyna” (1673); “The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man” (1674); “Aurenge Zebe, or, the Great Mogul” (1675); “Œdipus” (1679); “Limherham” (1679); “Epistles of Ovid” (1679); “The Spanish Friar” (1681); “Absalom and Achitophel” (1681); “The Medal: a Satire against Sedition” (1681); “Mac-Flecknoe” (1682); “Religio Laici” (1682); “The Duke of Guise” (1682); “Albion and Albanus” (1685); “Threnodia Augustalis” (1685); “The Hind and the Panther” (1687); “Britannia Rediviva” (1689); “Don Sebastian” (1690); “Amphitryon” (1690); “King Arthur” (1691); “Cleomenes” (with Thomas Southern) (1692); “Love Triumphant” (1694); a “Translation of Virgil” (1697); “Alexander’s Feast” (1697); “Fables” (1700); and other works, including translations and editions. The dramatic works have been frequently reprinted, and editions of the poems published by Bell and Christie. For Biography, see the “Lives” by Scott, Hooper, and Malone; for Criticism, Bell, Christie, Scott, Johnson’s “Lives,” Hazlitt’s “English Poets,” Campbell’s “Specimens,” Clough’s “Life and Letters,” Lowell’s “Among my Books,” Masson’s “Essays,” and Ward’s “Dramatic Literature.”
