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MOHAMMAD ANUZ AL SAAD

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UTTARA UNIVERSITY

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SHORT BIOGRAPHYBorn in 1631 in Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire,England

Eldest of fourteen children of Erasmus Drydenand Mary Pickering

Received a predominantly classical educationin Westminster School under the celebratedheadmaster, Richard Busby

In 1650, he went to trinity college, Cambridge

Married Elizabeth Howard and had three sons

Died on 1 May in 1700

CAREERDryden’s first play, The Wild Gallant was produced in

1663.

Secret Love or The Maiden Queen staged on the reopening

of the theatres was liked by the king.

The Indian Emperor was an outstanding success.

In 1668, Dryden succeeded as Poet Laureate.

All for Love, his favourite play appeared in 1677.

Absalom and Achitophel was written satirising some plots

of Whig leaders.

His last work was Fable Ancient and Modern.

WORKS OF DRYDENDRAMATIC WORKS:

THE RIVAL LADIES (1664)

THE INDIAN QUEEN (1665)

THE INDIAN EMPEROR (1667)

THE WILD GALLANT (1669)

TYRANNICK LOVE; OR, THE ROYAL MARTYR (1670)

MARRIAGE À LA MODE (1673)

THE ASSIGNATION; OR, LOVE IN A NUNNERY (1673)

ALL FOR LOVE; OR, THE WORLD WELL LOST (1678)

THE DUKE OF GUISE (1683)

ALBION AND ALBANIUS (1685)

TO BE CONTINUED…

PROSE:

Of Dramatic Poesie, An Essay (1668)

Notes and Observations on "The Empress of Morocco" (1674)

His Majesties Declaration Defended (1681)

The Vindication; or, The Parallel of the French Holy League,

and the English League and Covenant, &c. (1683)

A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire

(1693)

Essays, Prefaces, and Dedications

TO BE CONTINUED…

POETRY:

Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell (1659)

Astraea Redux (1660)

To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyric on His Coronation(1661)

To My Lord Chancellor (1662)

Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders (1667)

Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel (1682)

The Medal: A Satire Against Sedition (1682)

Mac Flecknoe: A Satire upon the

Trew-Blue-Protestant Poet T.S. (1682)

PHILOSOPHY OF DRYDEN

Had neither the emotional excitement of the early

nineteenth century romantics nor the intellectual

complexities of the metaphysicals.

Criticizes the then society through his writings.

His writing style was unique, mostly employing

daily patterns and rhythms used in everyday

speech.

PROSE STYLES OF JOHN DRYDEN

Purifying the language of corrupt rhetoric and abuse of figures of speech, conceits

and pun

Newly reformed movement of Royal Society

In 1664, the Royal Society appointed a committee for improving the English

Language with Evelyn, Waller and Dryden

To reform the English prose diction, Dryden makes a place for establishment of a

National Academy on the lines of French Academy to act as arbiter on all linguistic

matters

Dryden completely subscribed to its programme of linguistic refinement and

supported the cause of reform through his own prose writing by providing a model

of prose that has the virtues of simplicity, lucidity and precision

Imparts conversational tone

Constant awareness of his audience

Frankness, simplicity, plainness, conversational tone

Metaphysical devices

AGE OF DRYDEN

Historically, The Age of Dryden is called the

Restoration Age.

The Age of Restoration was an age of sweeping

reactions against Puritanism and the Glorious

Revolution.

ANALYSIS OF FABLESA fable is a brief tale conveying a moral in which beasts and birds

are made to act and speak like human.

But Dryden’s fables are in no sense fables, but rather tale in

verse.

In the Preface to the Fables, Dryden explains the background and

project of the fables.

Dryden began with a translation of the first book of Homer’s

Iliad.

Then he translated Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

He translated five tales from Chaucer's famous Canterbury

Tales.