Drydens Esaay on Criticism
In partial fulfillment of the subject ENGLISH LITERATURE a Critical Paper
JOHN DRYDEN ( DRAMATIC POESY )
Submitted by: Gretchen Ingosan
Submitted to: Mrs. Jocelyn Alimondo The “founder and first true master” of modern English prose was John Dryden, an all-around man of letters. Because of his influence, the era in which Dryden lived is often referred to as the “age of Dryden.” In the Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), a major critical work, Dryden sought to “claim the honor of our English writers.” He also wrote comedies, as well as the best tragedy of the day, All for Love (1677), a neoclassical version of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Among Dryden’s achievements in poetry were perfecting the technique of English poetry, regularizing meter, and making diction precise. He was a master of explaining ideas, of reasoning in verse. John Dryden was a major literary figure in both literature and criticism of during the restoration and late 17th century, and the, most influential critic of the whole century. He wrote plays, poems, essays, and satires of great popularity.
Dryden was the dominant literary figure and influence of his age. He established the heroic couplet as a standard form of English poetry by writing successful satires, religious pieces, fables, epigrams, compliments, prologues, and plays with it; he also introduced the alexandrine and triplet into the form. In his poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet—Auden referred to him as "the master of the middle style that was a model for his contemporaries and for much of the 18th century. The considerable loss felt by the English literary community at his death was evident from the elegies that it inspired. Dryden's heroic couplet became the dominant poetic form of the 18th century.
What Dryden achieved in his poetry was not the emotional excitement we find in the Romantic poets of the
JOHN DRYDEN ( DRAMATIC POESY )
Submitted by: Gretchen Ingosan
Submitted to: Mrs. Jocelyn Alimondo The “founder and first true master” of modern English prose was John Dryden, an all-around man of letters. Because of his influence, the era in which Dryden lived is often referred to as the “age of Dryden.” In the Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), a major critical work, Dryden sought to “claim the honor of our English writers.” He also wrote comedies, as well as the best tragedy of the day, All for Love (1677), a neoclassical version of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Among Dryden’s achievements in poetry were perfecting the technique of English poetry, regularizing meter, and making diction precise. He was a master of explaining ideas, of reasoning in verse. John Dryden was a major literary figure in both literature and criticism of during the restoration and late 17th century, and the, most influential critic of the whole century. He wrote plays, poems, essays, and satires of great popularity.
Dryden was the dominant literary figure and influence of his age. He established the heroic couplet as a standard form of English poetry by writing successful satires, religious pieces, fables, epigrams, compliments, prologues, and plays with it; he also introduced the alexandrine and triplet into the form. In his poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet—Auden referred to him as "the master of the middle style that was a model for his contemporaries and for much of the 18th century. The considerable loss felt by the English literary community at his death was evident from the elegies that it inspired. Dryden's heroic couplet became the dominant poetic form of the 18th century.
What Dryden achieved in his poetry was not the emotional excitement we find in the Romantic poets of the