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The 26 pages that link to John Dryden, each with the reason it gives.

• Alexander PopeRelated: Dryden’s translation of classical poets helped establish a precedent Pope followed.

• Paradise LostRelated: Dryden adapted Milton’s epic into the operatic drama The State of Innocence.

• Aphra BehnRelated: Dryden’s praise of Behn reflects her standing among Restoration literary contemporaries.

• BurlesqueRelated: His definition of burlesque helped distinguish its high and low stylistic forms.

• Heroic coupletRelated: His translations and poems made the heroic couplet a major vehicle for English verse.

• Restoration literatureRelated: His drama, satire, and criticism helped define the period’s literary standards.

• Poetry translationRelated: His categories provide an early vocabulary for the freedoms and constraints of verse translation.

• William CongreveRelated: Dryden praised Congreve and helped establish his literary reputation.

• Mock-heroicRelated: Mac Flecknoe established a major English example of mock-heroic literary satire.

• Noble savageRelated: His play helped popularize the phrase “noble savage,” though not the later theory in full.

• Thomas BettertonRelated: Dryden wrote major roles for Betterton, including the title role in his adaptation of Hamlet.

• Joseph AddisonRelated: Addison’s classical criticism and poetry followed a literary tradition Dryden had shaped.

• The LusiadsRelated: His era’s preference for fluent, adaptive translation provides a comparison for Fanshawe’s method.

• Henry PurcellRelated: Dryden supplied the libretto for King Arthur and helped shape Purcell’s theatrical work.

• Elizabeth BarryRelated: Dryden wrote tragic roles that helped establish Barry’s reputation, including Monimia in The Orphan.

• Titus OatesRelated: His poem Absalom and Achitophel satirized political figures and the turmoil surrounding the crisis.

• William WycherleyRelated: Dryden’s prominence offers a contemporary comparison for Wycherley’s dramatic career.

• Abraham CowleyRelated: Dryden’s account of Cowley helped secure his place among England’s major poets.

• King ArthurRelated: Dryden wrote the spoken libretto and built the Arthurian story around political and magical conflict.

• Laurence EusdenRelated: Dryden established a prominent model of laureateship that preceded Eusden’s appointment.

• George SaintsburyRelated: Saintsbury admired Dryden and treated his criticism as a major stage in English literary history.

• John WilmotRelated: Dryden’s public literary stature contrasts with Rochester’s aristocratic, often illicit poetic circulation.