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Excerpt from Johnson´s: Life of Dryden 1. Life of Dryden, pp. 1-41.Dry den was born in Northamptonshire in 1631, brought up as an Anabaptist, and inherited an estate worth two hundred pounds a year. Educated at Westminster School and Cambridge, and wrote poems at both places. First public performance, Heroic Stanzas on Cromwell, followed by Astrea Redux, on the Restoration. (Johnson defends him from the charge of inconstancy.) Wrote plays from 1663 for thirty-one years. 1. Wild Gallant, unsuccessful. 2. Rival Ladies, first attempt at dramatic rhyme. 3. Indian Emperor, sequel to Howard´s Indian Queen. In 1667, Annus Mirahilis, in quatrains; here he begins to commend his own performances. In 1668 became Laureate and published Essay on Dramatic Poetry. 4. Secret Love. 5. Sir Martin Marall, accused of plagiarism. 6. The Tempest, a variation of Shakespeare´s play. In 1673 he attacked Settles Empress of Morocco. 7. An Evening´s Love, with a preface on the Drama. 8. Tyrannic Iove, severely criticised. 9. Conquest of Granada, majestic and incredible, ridiculed by Clififord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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