John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright born in 1631. He was educated at Westminster School and became England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. Dryden wrote extensively in different genres, including plays, poems and literary criticism. Some of his most notable works include plays like The Conquest of Granada and Marriage A-la-Mode, as well as poems like Tyrannic Love. Dryden made major contributions to English literature and came to largely dominate the literary world of Restoration England.

1. John dryden
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2. Agenda
• Introduction(John Dryden)
• John Dryden – Early Life
• Education
• Poet Laureate
• Writing Style
• Attack
• Works
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3. John dryden
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•Born: August 19, 1631, Northamptonshire, England
•Died: May 12, 1700 (aged 68), London, England
•John Dryden (19 August 1631 — 12 May 1700) was an
English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright. He
largely dominated the literary world of Restoration
England and became England’s first Poet Laureate in
1668.

4. John Dryden – Early Life
John Dryden was born August 19th 1631 to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary
Pickering. He was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in
Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was the rector of All Saints.
Dryden was the eldest of fourteen children.
His paternal grandfather was Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet (1553–1632),
whose wife was Frances Wilkes, Puritan landowning gentry who supported the
Puritan cause and Parliament. Dryden was a second cousin once removed of
Jonathan Swift.
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5. Education
Dryden grew up in the nearby village of Titchmarsh, where it is thought
he got his first education. Following this, he attended Westminster School
as a King’s Scholar in 1644. His headmaster was Dr. Richard Busby, a
charismatic teacher and severe disciplinarian.
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6. Poet Laureate
Dryden returned to London in the winter of 1666-1667,
and his years were fruitful. Several of his plays were
staged, the Essay was published, the King’s Company
signed Dryden to a contract in which he became a
shareholder and agreed to give them three new plays per
year, and he became Poet Laureate in 1668.
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• He produced four more plays by the end of 1671
1- two masterpieces, The Conquest of Granada
2- rhymed heroic play in ten acts,
• split-plot tragicomedy
1- Marriage A-la-Mode
• He also published Tyrannic Love (1669).

7. Writing Style
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• He wanted to express his ideas in a simple,
precise and concentrated manner.
• Dryden uses formal structures in his poetic
writing
• yet also manages to recreate the natural rhythm
of speech
• He also knew that different subjects need
different kinds of verse.

8. Attack
Dryden’s poem “An Essay upon Satire” contained a number of attacks on King
Charles II, his mistresses and courtiers, but most pointedly on the Earl of Rochester,
a notorious womaniser. On 8pm on 18 December 1679, Dryden was attacked in
Rose Alley behind the Lamb & Flag pub, near his home in Covent Garden, by thugs
hired by the Earl of Rochester. They attacked him whilst he was walking back from
Will’s Coffee House, but luckily he survived the attack.
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9. Works
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Dramatic works
•The Wild Gallant, a Comedy (1663/1669)
•The Rival Ladies, a Tragi-Comedy
(1663/1664)
•The Indian Queen, a Tragedy (1664/1665)
•The Indian Emperor, or the Conquest of
Mexico by the Spaniards (1665/)
•Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen (1667/)
•Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence,
a Comedy (1667/1668)

10. Works
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•The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, a
Comedy (1667/1670), an adaptation with
William D’Avenant of Shakespeare’s The
Tempest
•An Evening’s Love, or the Mock
Astrology, a Comedy (1668/1668)
•Tyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr, a
Tragedy (1668 or 1669/1670)

11. Reference
• https://englishhistory.net/poets/john-dryden/
• https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8124.John_Dryden
• https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/the-cold-dead-hand-
of-john-dryden
• https://www.academia.edu/36720220/John_DRYDEN_1631_1700_Bri
ef_Life_and_Political_Works
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