John Dryden

The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS 's strictures on John Weston 's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden with Pope to the advantage of...

Its boldness in argument—seeking to lift women to an Equallity [sic] with men—may stem from its anonymity. It is also interesting as literary criticism, notably on Dryden , Wycherley , Congreve , and Locke

Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley ) were succeeded by Dryden . (She always denied any influence from Pope .) But...

CT 's dedication sets out her own literary and dramatic models: Shakespeare , Dryden , Otway , and Nathaniel Lee . The play, set in late fifteenth-century France, concerns royal marriage. Charles VIII

The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the...

Lucretius , as a pagan philosopher and theologian (and, as LH and her contemporaries believed, insane much of the time and sexually promiscuous), was a daring choice for one of her religious opinions.

The novel ranges over Barbary, Persia, and Brazil, but centres on the career of Sebastian , sixteenth-century king of Portugal, who in died in Africa in 1578, fighting against the Moors...

This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from...

An Argument explains the poem's source in Plutarch. AF 's hero, whose father was an associate of Alexander the Great , is dead after many vicissitudes. His ashes make a triumphal progress by sea from...

In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of...

Her title is a near-quotation from the lyric by Dryden which closes The Secular Masque; NL both quotes Dryden and thanks him. Her preface says Madeline Smith—may the earth lie lightly upon her—gave...

On the death of John Dryden , DM edited The Nine Muses, an all-female collection of elegies on him.

AB 's comedy The Widdow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon in Virginia, the first play to be set in British North America, had a posthumous performance at Drury Lane which may have been...

This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .

MW has adapted two German plays for English productions: Heinrich von Kleist 's Penthesilea, about the Amazons (1977), and Ernst Toller 's The Blind Goddess (1981). She also adapted Githa Sowerby 's Rutherford and...