Author:John Dryden

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John Dryden (1631–1700)

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John Dryden

Works

• The Indian Queen (with Sir Robert Howard)
• The Indian Emperor
• Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell
• Astrea Redux, a poem on the Restoration of King Charles II
• A Panegyric on the Coronation of Charles II
• An Address to Lord Chancellor Hyde
• Satire on the Dutch
• To her Royal Highness the Dutchess, on the Memorable Victory Gained by the Duke over the Hollanders
• Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders
• Essay Upon Satire
• All for Love
• Absalom and Achitophel
• The Medal: A Satire Against Sedition
• Religio Laici
• The Art of Poetry
• Threnodia Augustalis, a funeral pindarick poem to the Memory of Charles II
• Veni Creator Spiritus
• The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses
• The Death of Ajax
• Story of Acis, Polyphemus and Galatea
• Of the Pythagorean Philosophy
• Canace to Macareus
• Helen to Paris
• Sylvia the Fair
• Alexander's Feast (1697)
  • Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Music; Francis T. Palgrave, ed. 1875
  • Alexander's Feast; Edward Arnold, ed. 1904
• Mac Flecknoe

Translations

• Translations from Juvenal, by Juvenal
• Translations from Ovid's Epistles, by Ovid
• Translations from Persuis, by Persuis
• Translations from Homer, by Homer
• The Works of Virgil (1697), by Virgil

including Aeneid

Works about Dryden

• “Dryden, John” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Dryden, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “John Dryden,” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.