Definition of John dryden

1. Noun. The outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700).

Exact synonyms: Dryden
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright, Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of John Dryden

John D. Rockefeller
John Dalton
John Davis
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davys
John Deere
John Dewey
John Doe
John Does
John Donald Budge
John Donne
John Dory
John Dowland
John Drew
John Dryden
John Duns Scotus
John Eccles
John Edgar Hoover
John Edward Masefield
John Endecott
John Endicott
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fletcher
John Florio
John Ford
John Foster Dulles
John Galbraith
John Galsworthy

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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