John Dryden

John Dryden
Lahir	(1631-08-19)19 Agustus 1631 Aldwincle, Thrapston, Northamptonshire, Inggris
Meninggal	12 Mei 1700(1700-05-12) (umur 68) London, Inggris
Pekerjaan	puisi, kritikus sastra, pengarang drama, librettist
Almamater	Westminster School Trinity College, Cambridge
Karya terkenal	Absalom and Achitophel, Mac Flecknoe, The Hind and the Panther

John Dryden (/ˈdraɪdən/; 19 Agustus [K.J.: 9 Agustus] 1631 – 12 Mei [K.J.: 1 Mei] 1700) adalah seorang penyair, kritikus sastra, penerjemah, dan pengarang drama asal Inggris yang menjadi Poet Laureate pertama asal Inggris pada 1668.^[1]

Ia dipandang mendominasi kehidupan sastra Restorasi Inggris pada sebuah titik dari periode tersebut yang dikenal dalam lingkar sastra sebagai Zaman Dryden. Walter Scott menyebutnya "Glorious John" (John yang Berjaya).^[2]

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan

Edisi

• The Works of John Dryden, 20 vols., ed. H. T. Swedenberg Jr. et al. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956–2002)
• John Dryden The Major Works, ed. by Keith Walker, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
• The Works of John Dryden, ed. by David Marriott (Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1995)
• John Dryden Selected Poems, ed. by David Hopkins (London: Everyman Paperbacks, 1998)
• John Dryden Selected Poems, ed. by Steven N. Swicker and David Bywaters (London: Penguin Books, 2001) ISBN 978-0140439144

Biografi

• Winn, James Anderson. John Dryden and His World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987)

Kritisisme modern

• Eliot, T. S., "John Dryden", in Selected Essays (London: Faber and Faber, 1932)
• Hopkins, David, John Dryden, ed. by Isobel Armstrong (Tavistock: Northcote House Publishers, 2004)
• Oden, Richard, L. Dryden and Shadwell, The Literary Controversy and 'Mac Flecknoe (1668–1679) (Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, Inc., Delmar, New York, 1977)
• Van Doren, Mark (2007). John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4067-2488-2. 
• Stark, Ryan. "John Dryden, New Philosophy, and Rhetoric", in Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2009)

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