Dryden, John (M)

Surname: Dryden
Forename(s): John
b. 9 August 1631. d. 12 May 1700. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Major Restoration poet, playwright, essayist, and translator. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (1662). Appointed England’s first Poet Laureate (1668). Biographical information: ODNB. (CC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 3
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Part of Dryden’s Translation of the Twenty-Ninth Ode of the First Book of Horace 1841-09-18 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 5280
“Oh, last and best of Scots! who didst maintain” 1878-09 Temple Bar Translator 17632
“With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair” 1896-09 Temple Bar Poet 18317