"Dryden taught to join / The varying pause, the full resounding line, / The long majestic march, and energy divine." (#Pope)

📖 in the of 13 April 1668, King appointed 36-year-old as the first English Poet Laureate.

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'Happy the Man' : died 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



🖼️ 'Dad' : Linzi Lynn : FineArtAmerica

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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:

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