The Poetry of Dryden (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Dryden
- First Published: 1660
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Eighteenth century, London, Neoclassicism
Critical Evaluation:
John Dryden the Restoration poet and critic, has been justly praised as the father of modern English. In spite of the three centuries separating his age from our own, his works in both verse and prose are surprisingly contemporary in his diction and sentence structure. Dryden had an uncanny instinct for avoiding fads and selecting those elements in the language of his day that were to be relatively permanent, and his style exerted a powerful influence on succeeding generations of writers.
Dryden’s reputation as a poet rests upon his control of...
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