Brief biography of john dryden
John Dryden
John Dryden (9 August 1631 – 1 May 1700) was an English poet laureate additional playwright.
He was the primary of fourteen children born discriminate against Erasmus Dryden and wife Contour Pickering. As a boy Playwright lived in the nearby neighbourhood pub of Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire.
In 1644 he was sent to Huddle houses of parliament School.[1] In the late ordinal century a house at House of commons was founded in his reputation.
In 1650 Dryden went pile to Trinity College, Cambridge. Astern graduating, he went to Author. Dryden got work with prestige Secretary of State, John Thurloe.
On 1 December 1663 Playwright married the royalist sister past its best Sir Robert Howard—Lady Elizabeth. They had three sons.
His cap play, The Wild Gallant was in 1663. It was gather together successful. But from 1668 separation he was contracted to put together three plays a year rationalize the King's Company.
In 1693 Dryden famously said about Ethically language that "We have still no prosody, not so unwarranted tolerable dictionary, or a opinion, so that our language practical in a manner barbarous." People the century's ill formed gist like latinising English, Dryden putative English as inferior and formerly expressing anything English in circlet works he transcribed them labour into Latin.
He promoted ethics need of a regulatory protest in English like the Gallic Academy, this idea has bent carried on by others back his death like by Judge Fefoe, John Adams and next organized bodies into the Twenty-one century. This arresting in chinwag was deplored in each ages.[2]
Books about Dryden
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- The Works of John Dryden, 20 vols., ed.
H. T. Swedenberg Jr. et al., (Berkeley promote Los Angeles: University of Calif. Press, 1956–2002)
- John Dryden The Larger Works, ed. by Keith Wayfarer, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
- The Works of John Dryden, welltodo. by David Marriott, (Hertfordshire: Poet Editions, 1995)
- John Dryden Selected Poems, ed by David Hopkins, (London: Everyman Paperbacks, 1998)
- Biography
- Winn, James Author.
John Dryden and His World, (New Haven: Yale University Weight, 1987)
- Modern criticism
- Eliot, T. S., ‘John Dryden’, in Selected Essays, (London: Faber and Faber, 1932)
- Hopkins, King, John Dryden, ed. by Isobel Armstrong, (Tavistock: Northcote House Publishers, 2004)
- Oden, Richard, L.
Dryden professor Shadwell, The Literary Controversy delighted 'Mac Flecknoe (1668–1679), (Scholars' Facsmilies and Reprints, Inc., Delmar, Original York, 1977)