Poet, Playwright, Critic (19-Aug-1631 — 1-May-1700)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Paul Hammond. Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome. Oxford University Press. 1999. 305pp.

Jayne Lewis; Maximillian E. Novak (editor). Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2005. 344pp.

Claude Rawson; Aaron Santesso (editor). John Dryden (1631-1700): His Politics, His Plays, and His Poets. University of Delaware Press. 2004. 301pp. A tercentenary celebration held at Yale University, October 2000.

George R. Wasserman. John Dryden. Twayne. 1964. 174pp.

PARALLELS

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

5. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.442)

6. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.75)

7. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (p.122)

8. British Authors Before 1800 (pp.163-66)

9. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.293)

10. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.156)

11. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.179)

12. The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama (p.188)

13. Who's Who in Europe, 1450-1750 (p.94)

14. The Penguin Companion to English Literature (pp.161-63)

15. Legends in Their Own Time (p.71)

16. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.19)

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