Written about 1678 and published in 1682 Mac Flecknoe (full title: Mac Flecknoe; or‚ A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet‚ T.S.[1]) is a verse mock-heroic satire written by John Dryden. It is a direct attack on Thomas Shadwell‚ another prominent poet of the time. As an English poet‚ John Dryden is classified as classic writer. When compared to romantic verses‚ Dryden’s poems‚ found lacking that love of nature. His verses are commonly simple. He loved to apply intellectual approach. Brower
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Sashanka S. Das‚ 4028‚ B.A. (H)‚ English‚ IInd year Q. Write on John Dryden’s ‘Mac Flecknoe’ as a satire. A. John Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe‚ as part of his corpus of satirical verse‚ is a short piece‚ and not as overtly political as‚ say‚ Absalom and Achitophel. It does aim to censure through indirect ridicule rather than direct condemnation‚ but‚ being a censorious poem directed specifically at an individual subject‚ Dryden’s literary rival Thomas Shadwell‚ it seems more a lampoon‚ as defined
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[pic] John Dryden Dryden wrote plays‚ poems‚ and essays and translated classical works into the idiom of his time. His abundance can scarcely be guessed at from the offerings in our text. As for his overall stature‚ he must be ranked with Pope‚ Swift‚ and Johnson as a top literary figure in the Neoclassical Era. Of note is the fact that Dryden established the Neoclassical style in poetry. During the last third of the 17th century‚ his contemporaries read his poetry‚ liked it‚ and adopted its
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title of Dryden’s poem Mac Flecknoe initiates the theme of familiar succession thus presenting many father/son or successor pairs. The poem begins with a mock sentential in the ponderous‚ aphoristic manner of a heroic poetry‚ gradually unveils the pathetic monarch of “Nonsense Absolute”. The first four lines which open the poem are in the high style with a delicate Horatian irony controlling the mock heroic inversions of terms. In the opening twenty lines of the poem Dryden introduces the readers
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ridiculing the characters in the plot and their actions. In the form and style‚ MacFlecknoe is a kind of mock-epic or mock-heroic poem. The very opening of MacFlecknoe is characterized by epic inflation which has a comic effect. Flecknoe who is known to be a worthless poet is compared to Augustus Caesar. The mock-heroic vein is continued throughout the poem in the portrayal of Shadwell as MacFlecknoe. The note of ironic politeness is continued also‚ being inseparable from the mock-epic
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Lines 543-68 of Dryden’s poem Absalom and Achitophel‚ considering the characteristics of Dryden as a poet. This passage of Dryden’s 1681 satirical and allegorical poem‚ Absalom and Achitophel‚ offers a detailed description of George Villiers‚ Duke of Buckingham coded as Zimri. It is important to have an understanding of the political context of this passage in order to fully appreciate Dryden’s biting satire. Buckingham was a powerful political statesman and sometime close ally of King Charles
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Abridged). Dryden wrote this essay as a dramatic dialogue with four characters representing four critical positions. The four critical positions are ancients verses moderns‚ unities‚ French verses English drama‚ separation of tragedy and comedy verses tragicomedy and appropriateness of rhyme in drama (Brysons). Neander is in favor of the moderns but he respects the ancients‚ he also favors English drama while having critical views towards French drama. In "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy" Dryden used character
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Dryden as a Satirist Introduction: Dryden is one of the greatest English satirists. He is the first practitioner of classical satire which after him was to remain in vogue for about one hundred and fifty years. From the very beginning of his literary career Dryden evinced a sharp satiric bent. He translated some of the satires of the Roman writer Persius when he was only a pupil at Westminster. Further‚ in his comedies he produced numerous passages of sparkling satire. He keenly studied the satirical
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john dryden absalom and achitophel summary Absalom and Achitophel is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden. The poem exists in two parts. The first part‚ of 1681‚ is undoubtedly by Dryden. The second part‚ of 1682‚ was written by another hand‚ most likely Nahum Tate‚ except for a few passages---including attacks on Thomas Shadwell and Elkanah Settle as Og and Doeg---that Dryden wrote himself. The poem is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against King David
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