John Dryden

>>9452762
unfortunately no

Has anyone on this board ever read him?

>>9452809
No, honey, only you. Be sure to brush your teeth before bed, it's almost 8.

>>9452874
Are you thinking I'm OP or something? Also, I didn't imply I had read him either

>>9452809
He's a great essayist. I have-- Absalom and Achitophel's most memorable of the poems. And the St. Cecilia's Day Ode too, of course.

Also, my grandfather had his Plutarch. So the first ten or so lives I read of P's was in D's translation.

>>9452762
If you want people to read Dryden, make a chart for him. People eat that stuff up

>>9452762
anime poet

Best Aeneid in English desu

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>>9454081
Several times the "great poet" Dryden couples way with way or sea with sea.
Rhyme was a mistake; DSL Milton did nothing wrong.

The only thing of his I've ever read is Mac Flecknoe, and that was for a survey class. I enjoyed it a lot, and thought it was very funny and skillfully written. But I am not generally a fan of neoclassicism, and the heroic couplet, while a good form in its own right, seems rather too restrictive to me.

His translations of Horace are god-tier, I have yet to read his plays but I look forward to it.

He seems like the closest thing England has to a Racine/Corneille