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"Dryden taught to join / The varying pause, the full resounding line, / The long majestic march, and energy divine." (#Pope)
📖 #OnThisDay in the #History of #Literature 13 April 1668, King #CharlesII appointed 36-year-old #JohnDryden as the first English Poet Laureate. #Poetry
'Happy the Man' : #JohnDryden died #otd 1700
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
https://t.co/qbLdzndt3f
@xoselbrea
🖼️ 'Dad' : Linzi Lynn : FineArtAmerica
In the new ECF issue, 30.3:
Dryden's Georgic Fictionality, by Katarina O'Briain, Johns Hopkins U.
https://t.co/LMcShHNa27
See abstract in the picture:
#18thcentury #johndryden #georgic