Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die
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Poet John Dryden 1631–1700
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD 17th Century
Subjects Relationships, Living, Disappointment & Failure, Love, Men & Women, Realistic & Complicated
Poetic Terms Couplet, Rhymed Stanza
Biography
After John Donne and John Milton, John Dryden was the greatest English poet of the seventeenth century. After William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, he was the greatest playwright. And he has no peer as a writer of prose, especially literary criticism, and as a translator. Other figures, such as George Herbert or Andrew Marvell or William Wycherley or William Congreve, may figure more prominently in anthologies and literary . . .
Poems by John Dryden
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SUBJECT Relationships, Living, Disappointment & Failure, Love, Men & Women, Realistic & Complicated
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD 17th Century
Poetic Terms Couplet, Rhymed Stanza
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