John Dryden

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Standard Name: Dryden, John
Birth Name: John Dryden
John Dryden, drawn by Jonathan Richardson after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller of 1697. His body (to the shoulders) is seen in profile, head turned towards the viewer.

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Textual Production Lady Eleanor Douglas
LED marked the death from smallpox of her elder grandson with Sions Lamentation, Lord Henry Hastings , His Funerals Blessing.
This was the young man whose death Dryden lamented with extravagant hyperbole in his...
Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
CAD 's volume of public poems composed as national Laureate, Ritual Lighting, with illustrations by Stephen Raw, was published to coincide with an exhibition of laureates' manuscripts at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh:...
Textual Production T. S. Eliot
They printed about 460 copies. The label on the wrapper survives in three different states, as did the label of the previous Hogarth edition of work by Eliot. The Woolfs were to print one more...
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
ET sent two of her poems to John Dryden , the Poet Laureate, asking for his criticism.
Dryden, John. The Letters of John Dryden: With Letters Addressed to Him. Editor Ward, Charles E., Duke University Press, 1942.
125-8, 132, 186
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
Textual Production Ephelia
The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
ET published, as a Young Lady, an elegy on Dryden in the collection Luctus Britannici.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
ET wrote a somewhat inaccurate account of Dryden 's death and funeral, which was published by Curll in Memoirs of Congreve on 11 August 1729 (dated 1730).
Dryden, John. The Letters of John Dryden: With Letters Addressed to Him. Editor Ward, Charles E., Duke University Press, 1942.
186
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
210
Textual Production Susanna Centlivre
SC contributed an elegy to The Nine Muses, the volume which Delarivier Manley edited on the death of John Dryden .
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
31-3
Textual Production Mary Pix
MP contributed to The Nine Muses, edited by Delarivier Manley in 1700, a volume of elegies by women on the lately-dead John Dryden .
Backscheider, Paula R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 80. Gale Research, 1989.
174
Textual Production Mary Lady Chudleigh
Mary, Lady Chudleigh , wrote a poem in praise of Dryden 's translation of Virgil , which was about to be published. It seems that she would not allow her tribute to be printed with...
Textual Production Anne Finch
Dundee 's death, distressing news for Jacobites, drew a lament in Latin by Archibald Pitcairne , translated by Dryden .
Eicke, Leigh. “’You that have borne the cause of Kings’: Anne Finch’s Jacobite Writing”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 26 Mar. 1999.
Textual Production Jane Barker
The full title-page makes clear how this is not a novel as understood today: A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies; or Love and Virtue Recommended: In a Collection of Instructive Novels. Related After a Manner...
Textual Production Norah Lofts
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...
Textual Production Aphra Behn
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...
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
On the death of John Dryden , DM edited The Nine Muses, an all-female collection of elegies on him.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
xii-xiii

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