介绍英国诗人的英语作文
John Dryden
(1631-1700)
POEMS:
Absalom and Achitophel
Alexander's Feast
Mac Flecknoe
The Secular Masque
Religio Laici
Veni, Creator Spiritus
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Of Dramatic Poesie
John Dryden, (1631-1700), English poet, literary critic, dramatist and leader in Restoration comedy wrote the comedic
市政规划play Marriage A-la-Mode (1672), and the tragedy All for Love (1678).
John Dryden was borm in Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England, the eldest of fourteen children of Erasmus Dryden
(C.1602-1654) and Mary Pickering (d. 1676).
Dryden was a King's scholar studying the classics at Westminster. He contributed to the collection of tributes to
honour Henry, Lord Hastings, an elegy in Lachrymae Musarum (1649). He entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1650,
graduating in February of 1654, the same year his father died. While living in London in 1657 Dryden started working
with the civil rvice and began in earnest writing plays of heroic tragedy and satires of varying success. Heroic
Stanzas (1658), on the death of Oliver Cromwell is his first important work. With the protectorate crumbling, Dryden
sought other work including writing for a bookller. With the return of Charles II he celebrated the King's divine
right with, among other works, his poem Astraea Redux (1 660). To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyrick on his Coronation
(1661) came next, Dryden courting favour with the new regime which would later bring allegations of insincere and
lf-rving allegiance.
On 1 December 1663 Dryden married the daughter of the Earl of Berkshire, Lady Elizabeth Howard (c.1638-1714),
排球场尺寸with whom he would have three sons. His first play The Wild Gallant was first staged in 1662. The Rival Ladies (1663)also had Spanish influences. Attached to itis one of his famous Prefaces where he describes his principles ofdramatic criticism. His first successful play, written in heroic couplets wasThe Indian Emperor(1665).The same yearof the Great Fire in London, Annus Mirabllis (1666) celebrates the English Navy's victory over the Dutch. Dryden hadretired to the country with the plague threat, where his first son was bom, and he continued to write. The MaidenQueen compod in blank ver, rhyming couplets and pro and The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery wereproduced in 1667.An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668) was written two years after the Restoration with the reopeningof the theatres. Dryden entered into a contractin 1668 with the King's Theatre Company in which he would producethree plays a year. For hifforts the Archbishop of Canterburyawarded himan MA.in 1668. The same yearhebecame Poet laureate and in 1670 Royal Historiographer which would provide a st
ableincome for him.The play Marriage A-la-Mode (1672) was followed by his unsuccessful work on the theme of Paradi Lost, The Stateof Innocence, staged in 1674.After 1676, he began to u blank ver, and he produced his best play, All for Love in1678. It is Dryden's most famous masterpiece bad on Anthony and Cleopatra.He had mastered the artofcomparative criticism, using pro and dialogue for debate, and wit and satire toillustrate disparities between churchand state. A year later Dryden was beaten by thugs, an attack that had been ordered by the Earl of Rochester whenDryden was suspected of collaboration on An Essay upon Satire, which vilified various prominent figures, of whichthe real author was never realid.
The well-known political satire of Shaftesbury underthe transparent gui of the Old Testament, Absalom andAchitophel, Dryden'sallegorical poem appeared in 1681and his didactic poem Religio Laici (1682) followed, whichargues the ca for Anglicanism. Threnodia Angustalis (1685) is an ode to Charlesll. The Hind and the Panther (1687)marked Dryden's final conversion to Roman Catholicism.
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After the Revolution of 1688 he lost his Laureateship with the accession of Williamll.Refusing to take an oath ofallegiance, his politics and religion left him outof favour with the court, and his sole source ofincome was from hisplays and translations of poetry from Latin and Greek. The tragi-comedy Don Sebastian (1690) was on a par with Allfor Love. Another tragi-comedy Love Triumphant (1694) would be hislastplay. Included in his ensuing critical essayswas A Discour conceming the Original and Progress of Satire. Dryden would also take on the massive task oftranslating the works of Virgil to pro.
John Dryden died on 12May 1700 from inflammation caud by gout. He is buried in the Poet's Comer ofWestminster Abbey, London, England, nearby to his longtime friend William Congreve.
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