Pope's formal education ended at this time, and from then on he mostly educated himself by reading the works of classical writers such as the satirists Horace and Juvenal, the epic poets Homer and Virgil, as well as English authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Dryden.

Whatever the justice of these, it should be borne in mind that Dryden had himself translated the work of Virgil, as Pope had of Homer, so it was in their interest to encourage a preference for their own products.

Several of members of Alcock's political organization later worked for Ken Dryden's campaign, and Alcock himself endorsed Dryden at the leadership convention.

The second part, of 1682, was written by another hand, most likely Nahum Tate, except for a few passages — including attacks on Thomas Shadwell and Elkanah Settle, expressed as Og and Doeg — that Dryden wrote himself.

After travelling in France and Italy, he settled in London, where he became acquainted with Dryden, and close to Wycherley, Congreve and the leading literary figures of his day ; and being made temporarily independent by inheriting a small fortune, he devoted himself to literature.

In 1672, English poet John Dryden wrote, " Shakespeare show'd the best of his skill in his Mercutio, and he said himself, that he was forc'd to kill him in the third Act, to prevent being killed by him.

The four speakers represented, respectively, Sir William Davenant " ingenious " collaborator on their revision of The Tempest, Sir Robert Howard and Dryden's brother-in-law, the earl of Orrery Boyle, author of the first heroic play in rhymed couplets, and Dryden himself ( neander means " new man " and implies that Dryden, as a respected member of the gentry class, is entitled to join in this dialogue on an equal footing with the three older men who are his social superiors ).

Dryden wrote several baroque machine plays himself.

The principle of Cowley's Pindariques was based on a misunderstanding of Pindar's metrical practice but was widely imitated nonetheless, with notable success by John Dryden.

* Gutenberg Project: The Aeneid ( Dryden translation ) ( plain text )

* The Online Library of Liberty Project from Liberty Fund, Inc: The Aeneid ( Dryden translation, New York: P. F.

Both Dryden and Pope were as indebted to him in this as Dryden was for certain lines in his own translation of the Aeneid.

In that poem, Dryden indirectly compares Thomas Shadwell with Aeneas by using the language of Aeneid to describe the coronation of Shadwell on the throne of Dullness formerly held by King Flecknoe.

* Virgil, The Aeneid: Translated by John Dryden, Penguin Classics ; New Ed edition ( October 1, 1997 ).

" Dryden in MacFlecknoe disdainfully called the pastime the " torturing of one poor word ten thousand ways ".< ref >

In the years that followed, Ogilby's reputation as a translator was to suffer from the attacks made on him by John Dryden in his satirical MacFlecknoe, and by Alexander Pope in The Dunciad.

However, the general structure owes its origins to, on the one hand, the communal project of the Scriblerians and, on the other, the mock-heroic " MacFlecknoe " by John Dryden.

MacFlecknoe is a poem celebrating the apotheosis of Thomas Shadwell, whom Dryden nominates as the dullest poet of the age.

Theodore von Kármán and Hugh Latimer Dryden introduced the term transonic to describe flow speeds around Mach 1 where drag increases rapidly.

Dryden, the English poet, used the word " clip " to describe the swift flight of a falcon in the 17th century when he said " And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

The expression, " the noble savage " was first used in 1672 by British poet John Dryden in his play The Conquest of Granada.

The Vandals may not have been any more destructive than other invaders of ancient times, but they did inspire British poet John Dryden to write, Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, Did all the matchless Monuments deface ( 1694 ).

The English translation by the 17th-century poet John Dryden is another important version.

* May 12 – John Dryden, English poet and dramatist who was poet laureate ( 1670 – 1688 ).

Here translated by the English poet John Dryden, Solon's words define a ' moral high ground ' where differences between rich and poor can be reconciled or maybe just ignored.

* John Dryden, English poet ( 1631 – 1700 )

The episode of Iphigenia and Cymon that inspired such painters as Benjamin West ( 1773 ), John Everett Millais ( 1848 ) and Frederic Leighton ( 1884 ) is not a Greek myth, but a novella taken from Boccaccio's Decameron and developed later by the poet and dramatist John Dryden.

A translation of Ovid's Myrrha, done by English poet John Dryden in 1700, has been interpreted as a critique of the society of that day linking Myrrha to Mary II and Cinyras to James II.

The English poet John Dryden translated the myth of Myrrha for political purposes.

In 1700 English poet John Dryden published his translations of myths by Ovid, Homer, and Boccaccio in the volume Fables, Ancient and Modern.

First granted in 1762 by New Hampshire's Colonial Governor, Benning Wentworth, the territory was named Dryden, after English poet and playwright, John Dryden.

During the 16th century the school educated writers including Ben Jonson and Richard Hakluyt ; in the seventeenth, the poet John Dryden, philosopher John Locke, scientist Robert Hooke, composer Henry Purcell and architect Christopher Wren were pupils ; and in the 18th century, philosopher Jeremy Bentham and several Whig Prime Ministers and other statesmen ; recent Old Westminsters include prominent politicians of all parties, and many members of the arts and media.

All the major poets of the period, Samuel Butler, John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, and the Irish poet Jonathan Swift, wrote satirical verse.

* August 9-John Dryden, poet and dramatist ( died 1700 )

The name was assigned by a clerk interested in the classics to honor John Dryden, poet and playwright.

At the Whig triumph in 1688, he superseded John Dryden as poet laureate and historiographer royal.

In 1673, the poet John Dryden produced his tragedy Amboyna ; or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants.

Indeed, seldom has a poet been as publicly acknowledged as a leader for as long as was Pope, and, unlike the case with figures such as John Dryden or William Wordsworth, a second generation did not emerge to eclipse his position.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known written usage of the Latin phrase " Annus Mirabilis " is as the title of a poem composed by English poet John Dryden about the events of 1666.

On English literature the maxims of Boileau, through the translation revised by Dryden, and through the magnificent imitation of them in Pope's Essay on Criticism, have exercised no slight influence.

Two tragedies written in rhymed heroic couplets, in imitation of John Dryden, followed in 1676, Sophonisba, or Hannibal's Overthrow and Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar.

See Dryden's " Defense of An Essay of Dramatic Poesy " ( 1669 ), where Dryden tries to persuade the rather literal-minded Howard that audiences expect a play to be an imitation of nature, not a surrogate for nature itself.

On 15 March 1682 Dryden brought out ‘ The Medal, a Satire against Sedition ,’ an attack on Shaftesbury, and on 31 March Pordage published ‘ The Medal revers'd, a Satyre against Persecution ,’ with an epistle, addressed, in imitation of Dryden, to his enemies, the Tories.