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Born in August 9, 1631 / Died in May 1, 1700 / United Kingdom / English

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  • Hugh McDonald, John Dryden: A Bibliography of Early Editions and Drydeniana (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1939).
  • John A. Zamonski, An Annotated Bibliography of John Dryden: Texts and Studies, 1949-1973 (New York: Garland, 1975).
  • David J. Latt and Samuel Holt Monk, John Dryden: A Survey and Bibliography of Critical Studies, 1895-1974 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976).
  • James M. Hall, John Dryden: A Reference Guide (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984).
  • Samuel Johnson, "John Dryden," in The Works of the English Poets, With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 68 volumes (London: Printed by H. Hughes for C. Bathurst and others, 1779-1781); in volume 1 of the standard edition, Lives of the English Poets, 3 volumes, edited by George Birkbeck Hill (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905).
  • Edmond Malone, volume 1 of The Critical and Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, 4 volumes, edited by Malone (London: Cadell & Davis, 1800).
  • Walter Scott, The Life of John Dryden, volume 1 of Scott's edition of The Works of John Dryden (London: William Miller, 1808); published separately in 1826.
  • Charles E. Ward, The Life of John Dryden (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961).
  • James M. Osborn, John Dryden; Some Biographical Facts and Problems, revised edition (Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida, 1965).
  • George McFadden, Dryden: The Public Writer, 1660-1685 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978).
  • James Anderson Winn, John Dryden and His World (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1987).
  • Paul Hammond, John Dryden: A Literary Life (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991).
  • Donald R. Benson, "Dryden's The Hind and the Panther: Transubstantiation and Figurative Language," Journal of the History of Ideas, 43 (April-June 1982): 195-208.
  • Benson, "Space, Time, and the Language of Transcendence in Dryden's Later Poetry," Restoration, 8 (Spring 1984): 10-16.
  • Benson, "Theology and Politics in Dryden's Conversion," Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 4 (Summer 1964): 393-412.
  • Louis I. Bredvold, The Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1934).
  • Sanford Budick, Dryden and the Abyss of Light: A Study of "Religio Laici" and "The Hind and the Panther" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970).
  • David Bywaters, Dryden in Revolutionary England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
  • J. Douglas Canfield, "Anarchy and Style: What Dryden 'Grants' in Absalom and Achitophel," Papers on Language and Literature, 14 (Winter 1978): 83-87.
  • Canfield, "The Authorship of Emilia: Richard Flecknoe's Revision of Erminia," Restoration, 3 (1979): 3-7.
  • Canfield, "Flecknoe's Early Defence of the Stage: An Appeal to Cromwell," Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research, second series 2 (Winter 1987): 1-7.
  • Canfield, "The Image of the Circle in Dryden's To My Honour'd Kinsman," PLL, 11 (Spring 1975): 168-176.
  • Canfield, "Poetical Injustice in Some Neglected Masterpieces of Restoration Drama," in Rhetorics of Order / Ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical Literature, edited by Canfield and J. Paul Hunter (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989), pp. 23-45.
  • Canfield, "Regulus and Cleomenes and 1688: From Royalism to Self-Reliance," Eighteenth-Century Life, 12 (November 1988): 67-75.
  • Canfield, "Royalism's Last Dramatic Stand: English Political Tragedy, 1679-89," Studies in Philology, 82 (Spring 1985): 234-263.
  • Canfield, Word as Bond in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Restoration (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989).
  • Michael J. Conlon, "The Passage on Government in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 78 (January 1979): 17-32.
  • Conlon, "The Rhetoric of Kairos in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel," in Rhetorics of Order / Ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical Literature, pp. 85-97.
  • Elizabeth Duthie, "'A Memorial of My Own Principles': Dryden's To My Honour'd Kinsman," Journal of English Literary History, 47 (Winter 1980): 682-704.
  • Mother Mary Eleanor, "Anne Killigrew and Mac Flecknoe," Philological Quarterly, 43 (January 1964): 47-54.
  • T. S. Eliot, John Dryden: The Poet, the Dramatist, the Critic (New York: Holliday, 1932).
  • William Empson, "A Deist Tract by Dryden," Essays in Criticism, 25 (January 1975): 74-100.
  • Empson, "Dryden's Apparent Scepticism," EIC, 20 (April 1970): 172-181.
  • William Frost, Dryden and the Art of Translation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955).
  • Paul H. Fry, The Poet's Calling in the English Ode (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980).
  • Thomas H. Fujimura, "Dryden's Changing Political Views," Restoration, 10 (Fall 1986): 93-104.
  • Fujimura, "The Personal Drama of Dryden's The Hind and the Panther," PMLA, 87 (May 1972): 406-416.
  • James D. Garrison, Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975).
  • Dustin Griffin, "Dryden's Charles: The Ending of Absalom and Achitophel," Philological Quarterly, 57 (Summer 1978): 359-382.
  • Griffin, "Dryden's Oldham and the Perils of Writing," Modern Language Quarterly, 37 (June 1976): 133-150.
  • Phillip Harth, Contexts of Dryden's Thought (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968).
  • Harth, Alan Fisher, and Ralph Cohen, New Homage to John Dryden (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1983).
  • Arthur W. Hoffman, John Dryden's Imagery (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1962).
  • D. W. Jefferson, "The Poetry of The Hind and the Panther," Modern Language Review, 79 (January 1984): 32-44.
  • Oscar Kenshur, "Scriptural Deism and the Politics of Dryden's Religio Laici," ELH, 54 (Winter 1987): 869-892.
  • Bruce King, ed., Dryden's Mind and Art (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1969).
  • James and Helen Kinsley, eds., Dryden: The Critical Heritage (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971).
  • Jay Arnold Levine, "John Dryden's Epistle to John Driden," JEGP, 63 (July 1964): 450-474.
  • Thomas E. Maresca, "The Context of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel," ELH, 41 (Fall 1974): 340-358.
  • Michael McKeon, "Historicizing Absalom and Achitophel," in The New 18th Century: Theory, Politics, Literature, edited by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown (New York: Methuen, 1987), pp. 23-40.
  • McKeon, Politics and Poetry in Restoration England: The Case of Dryden's 'Annus Mirabilis' (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975).
  • Earl Miner, Dryden's Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967).
  • Miner, ed., John Dryden (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1972).
  • Douglas Murray, "The Musical Structure of Dryden's Song for St. Cecilia's Day," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 10 (Spring 1977): 326-334.
  • Murray, "The Royal Harmony: Music and Politics in Dryden's Poetry," Restoration, 11 (Spring 1987): 39-47.
  • William Myers, "Politics in The Hind and the Panther," Essays in Criticism, 19 (January 1969): 19-34.
  • Maximillian E. Novak, "Shaping the Augustan Myth: John Dryden and the Politics of Restoration Augustanism," in Greene Centennial Studies, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Robert R. Allen (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984), pp. 1-20.
  • Richard L. Oden, ed., Dryden and Shadwell: The Literary Controversy and Mac Flecknoe (1668-1679): Facsimile Reproductions (Delmar, N.Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977).
  • H. J. Oliver, Sir Robert Howard, 1626-1698: A Critical Biography (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1963).
  • Cedric D. Reverand, Dryden's Final Poetic Mode: The "Fables" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988).
  • Reverand, "Patterns of Imagery and Metaphor in Dryden's The Medall," Yearbook of English Studies, 2 (1972): 103-114.
  • Alan Roper, Dryden's Poetic Kingdoms (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965).
  • Roper, "Dryden's Secular Masque," Modern Language Quarterly, 23 (March 1962): 29-40.
  • Bernard N. Schilling, Dryden and the Conservative Myth: A Reading of "Absalom and Achitophel" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961).
  • Judith Sloman, Dryden: The Poetics of Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985).
  • Ruth Smith, "The Argument and Contexts of Dryden's Alexander's Feast," Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 18 (Summer 1978): 465-490.
  • Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression (London: Methuen, 1986).
  • Donna Elliot Swaim, "Milton's Immediate Influence on Dryden," Ph.d. dissertation, University of Arizona, 1978.
  • H. T. Swedenberg, ed., Essential Articles for the Study of John Dryden (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1966).
  • W. K. Thomas, The Crafting of "Absalom and Achitophel" (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfred Laurier, 1978).
  • Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920).
  • David M. Vieth, "The Discovery of the Date of Mac Flecknoe," in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, edited by René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), pp. 63-87.
  • David Wykes, A Preface to Dryden (London & New York: Longman, 1977).
  • Steven N. Zwicker, Dryden's Political Poetry: The Typology of King and Nation (Providence: Brown University Press, 1972).
  • Zwicker, Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry: The Arts of Disguise (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984).