A common example is John Dryden's MacFlecknoe, a poem that ridicules Dryden's contemporary, Thomas Shadwell.

Shadwell is chiefly remembered as the unfortunate Mac Flecknoe of Dryden's satire, the " last great prophet of tautology ," and the literary son and heir of Richard Flecknoe:

However, Dryden's portrait of Shadwell in Absalom and Achitophel cut far deeper, and has withstood the test of time.

To some degree, this imagery of unholy consecration had been present in Dryden's MacFlecknoe, but Pope's King of Dunces is much more menacing than Thomas Shadwell could ever have been in Dryden's poem.

The song " Lather ", appearing on the Airplane's Crown of Creation, is said to have been written by Grace Slick on the occasion of Dryden's 30th birthday.

Here are three examples from Book IV of Dryden's translation of the Aeneid.

In 1687, he resumed his connection with the theatre by furnishing the music for Dryden's tragedy, Tyrannick Love.

In 1690, he composed the music for Betterton's adaptation of Fletcher and Massinger's Prophetess ( afterwards called Dioclesian ) and Dryden's Amphitryon.

John Dryden's masque King Arthur is still performed, largely thanks to Henry Purcell's music, though seldom unabridged.

Perhaps the outstanding example was John Dryden's English version of the poems of Virgil, published in 1697.

For example, Dryden's All for Love, a redaction of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, attempted to compress the sprawl of action and multiple settings from Egypt to Rome to a single place, and within a 24 hour time frame.

In English the phrase first appeared in the 17th century in John Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ), where it was used by a Christian prince disguised as a Spanish Muslim to refer to himself, but it later became identified with the idealized picture of " nature's gentleman ", which was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism.

Dryden's use of the phrase is a striking oxymoron.

Pope's phrase, " Lo the Poor Indian ", became almost as famous as Dryden's " noble savage " and, in the 19th century, when more people began to have first hand knowledge of and conflict with the Indians, would be used derisively for similar sarcastic effect.

( Interestingly, Dickens's essay refers back to Dryden's well-known use of the term, not to Rousseau.

Hogarth, as well as Mark Sykes and Henry McMahon, who historically fulfilled Dryden's role as a political liaison.

John Dryden's 1690 Amphitryon is based on Molière's 1668 version as well as on Plautus.

Notable innovations from Dryden's adaptation include music by Henry Purcell and the character of Phaedra, who flirts with Sosia but is eventually won over by Mercury ’ s promises of wealth.

* John Dryden's play All for Love was deeply influenced by Shakespeare's treatment of the subject.

Dryden's replacement as the Airplane's drummer was Joey Covington, an L. A. musician who had been sitting in with Hot Tuna during 1969.

Literary critic Anthony W. Lee notes in his essay " Dryden's Cinyras and Myrrha " that this translation, along with several others, can be interpreted as a subtle comment on the political scene of the late seventeenth-century England.

* In John Dryden's poem The Secular Masque, Momus mocks the gods Diana, Mars, and Venus for the vanity of what they represent among human beings.

One of his masterpieces of this period is the depiction of an amateur performance of John Dryden's The Indian Emperor, or The Conquest of Mexico ( 1732 – 1735 ) at the home of John Conduitt, master of the mint, in St George's Street, Hanover Square.

In 1687, Montagu joined with Matthew Prior in " The City Mouse and the Country Mouse ," a burlesque of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther.

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Pottery styles associated with the later part of the Archaic age are black-figure pottery, which originated in Corinth during the 7th century BC, and its successor, the red-figure style, developed by the Andokides painter in about 530 BC.

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The Stamps-Baxter School of Music declined after World War II, but its successor continues to this day as an annual two-week summer workshop under the leadership of Ben Speer.

In 1909, the annual Congressional Baseball Game was begun, and was held at this venue and its successor for the next few decades

After his death in 927 however, his successor Peter I was able to secure the hand of Maria Lecapene, the granddaughter of emperor Romanus I, and with it an annual tribute, the renewed recognition of the his imperial title and the autocephaly of the Bulgarian church.

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