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 * John Dryden ** (9 August 1631 – 1 May 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. After the Restoration, Dryden quickly established himself as the leading poet and literary critic of his day and he transferred his allegiances to the new government. Dryden was the dominant literary figure and influence of his. He established the heroic couplet as a standard form of English poetry by writing successful satires, religious pieces, fables, epigrams, compliments, prologues, and plays with it; he also introduced the alexandrine and triplet into the form. In his poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet—Auden referred to him as "the master of the middle style"—that was a model for his contemporaries and for much of the 18th century.

Portrait of John Dryden by Godfrey Kneller, 1698 Portrait of John Dryden by unknown artist

 ▪ // Astraea Redux //, 1660  ▪ // The Wild Gallant // (comedy), 1663  ▪ // The Indian Emperour // (tragedy), 1665  ▪ // Annus Mirabilis // (poem), 1667  ▪ // The Enchanted Island // (comedy), 1667, an adaptation with William D'Avenant of Shakespeare's //The Tempest//  ▪ // Secret Love, or The Maiden Queen //, 1667  ▪ // An Essay of Dramatick Poesie //, 1668  ▪ // An Evening's Love // (comedy), 1668  ▪ // Tyrannick Love // (tragedy), 1669  ▪ // The Conquest of Granada //, 1670  ▪ // The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery //, 1672  ▪ // Marriage à la mode //, 1672  ▪ // Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants // , 1673  ▪ // The Mistaken Husband // (comedy), 1674  ▪ // Aureng-zebe //, 1675  ▪ // All for Love //, 1678 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // Oedipus // (heroic drama), 1679, an adaptation with Nathaniel Lee of Sophocles ' //Oedipus// <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // Absalom and Achitophel //, 1681 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // The Spanish Fryar //, 1681 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // MacFlecknoe //, 1682 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // The Medal //, 1682 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // Religio Laici //, 1682 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // Threnodia Augustalis //, 1685 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // The Hind and the Panther //, 1687 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // A Song for St. Cecilia's Day //, 1687 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // Amphitryon //, 1690 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // Don Sebastian //, 1690 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // Creator Spirit, by whose aid //, 1690. Translation of Rabanus Maurus ' Veni Creator Spiritus <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // King Arthur //, 1691 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // Cleomenes //, 1692 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // The Works of Virgil //, 1697 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // Alexander's Feast //, 1697 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // Fables, Ancient and Modern //, 1700 <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> ▪ // The Art of Satire // <span style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">▪ To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, 1684
 * List of Works**

<span style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> [|Works by John Dryden] at [|Project Gutenberg] (plain text and HTML) <span style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> [|Works by or about John Dryden] at [|Internet Archive] (scanned books original editions color illustrated) <span style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> [|Works by or about John Dryden] in libraries ( [|WorldCat] catalog) <span style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;"> [|Poems by John Dryden at PoetryFoundation.org]
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