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Definition of Dryden
1. Noun. The outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700).
Definition of Dryden
1. Proper noun. (surname from=Old English dot=) derived from place names in England, from (etyl ang) words for "dry valley". ¹
2. Proper noun. John Dryden, English poet and playwright ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Dryden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"Dryden Dryden adopted other not very creditable devices to catch the public taste.
In 1673 he produced the tragedy ' Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch ..."
2. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"Dryden was sent to school at Westminster. He published some verses at the age
... This comedy was not well received, and Dryden confesses that his forte was ..."
3. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"Dryden was sent to school at Westminster. He published some verses at the age
... This comedy was not well received, and Dryden confesses that his forte was ..."
4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1827)
"His fourth satire frequently reminds ns of the great political poem of Dryden;
hut it was not written till Domitian liad fallen, and it wants something of ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"Dryden has plenty of strength, too, but it shows itself differently. ...
Dryden bounds and exults in his nervous vigour, like a strong steed broke loose. ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"Milton was the voice of one of two opposed ideals, Dryden the voice of the Court
... It was not long before they introduced, mainly by the aid of Dryden, ..."
7. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"And alj the historians of the eighteenth century, reading Dryden or copying each
... Erasmus Henry Dryden admitted for his Majesty (in the room of Orlando ..."
8. Works by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1838)
"Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence
of Pope. He professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, ..."
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