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Definition of John Dryden
1. Noun. The outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700).
Lexicographical Neighbors of John Dryden
Literary usage of John Dryden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"PREFACE TO FABLES, ANCIENT AND MODERN BY John Dryden. ... There John
Dryden (1631-1700), the great dramatic and satirical poet of the fater seventeenth ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... John Dryden (1631-1700) BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY John Dryden, the foremost man
of letters of the period following the Restoration, was born at Aldwinkle, ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1880)
"TO MY HONOURED KINSMAN, John Dryden,1 Of Chesterton, in the county of Huntingdon
... 1 John Dryden, first cousin of the poet, was Member for Huntingdonshire ..."
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