DRYDEN

JOHN,. Aldwinkle CNorthpton), 1631, d. 1700; poet laureate, 10-1689; educated at Westminster ool, and buricd in the Abbey. His ys wero highly thought of in his own ies, but it is by his poems that his mory lives. His satire, Absalom and sicabiacy = vee pec lively), appeared ia respectively), app 1; tho Hind and the Panther announced conversion to Romanism; his noble nsiation of Virgil and his Ode on St. ilia’s Day, wero published in 1697; i by all these, as well as by his prose say on Dramatic Poesy, he worthily led } way from tho Shakespecarian to the dern period of literature. [s. 126]