Websites
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The Poetry Foundation offers up a great bio and link to Dryden's work.
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Interested in… oh, anything Dryden ever wrote? This is the website for you.
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John Dryden was also a well-respected translator, who took on Virgil's The Aeneid. We suppose that's why he makes a pretty obscure reference to the Roman epic here in "Mac Flecknoe" in line 108. Take a look at his translation here.
Video
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Check out this brief YouTube lesson on John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and the Restoration Period of English history.
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Ever wonder what John Dryden might have looked like reading his own poetry? Well, wonder no further. We do admit, this one does kind of gives us the willies.
Audio
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This reading features some stand-in photos for poor Shaddy.
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This is the audio version of the great Dryden-Shadwell smackdown. You get to hear them go back and forth at each other through their poetry. The closer, "Mac Flecknoe," tells you who's left standing.
Images
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Nice locks, JD.
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Seriously, would you want to be on the receiving end of this guy's bad mood?
Articles and Interviews
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This article explores Dryden's conservative appeal.
Books
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Get all of Dryden's work in one handy, compact package: this book.
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Here's Dryden's take on The Aeneid.