John Dryden (poet)

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkb:poet
literary criticism
playwright
gptkbp:appointedBy gptkb:Poet_Laureate_of_England
1668
gptkbp:birthDate 1631-08-09
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Aldwincle,_Northamptonshire,_England
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Westminster_Abbey
gptkbp:child gptkb:Charles_Dryden
gptkb:Erasmus_Henry_Dryden
gptkb:John_Dryden_Jr.
gptkbp:convertedTo gptkb:Roman_Catholicism
gptkbp:deathDate 1700-05-12
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:London,_England
gptkbp:education gptkb:Trinity_College,_Cambridge
gptkb:Westminster_School
gptkbp:era gptkb:Restoration_literature
gptkbp:father gptkb:Erasmus_Dryden
gptkbp:genre gptkb:poetry
drama
literary criticism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label John Dryden (poet)
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Alexander_Pope
gptkb:Samuel_Johnson
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkb:Edmund_Waller
Ben Jonson
gptkbp:knownFor literary criticism
satirical verse
heroic drama
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:mother gptkb:Mary_Pickering
gptkbp:nationality English
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Absalom_and_Achitophel
gptkb:All_for_Love
gptkb:Annus_Mirabilis
gptkb:Essay_of_Dramatic_Poesy
gptkb:Mac_Flecknoe
gptkb:The_Hind_and_the_Panther
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:poet
literary criticism
playwright
gptkbp:period Restoration
gptkbp:removedFromLaureateship 1689
gptkbp:signature John Dryden signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Elizabeth_Howard
gptkbp:subjectOf gptkb:Dryden's_Monument,_Westminster_Abbey
numerous biographies
gptkbp:title gptkb:Poet_Laureate_of_England
gptkb:Historiographer_Royal
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:The_Aeneid_(Virgil)
gptkb:Ovid's_Metamorphoses
gptkb:Juvenal_and_Persius
gptkb:The_Works_of_Virgil
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:Marriage_à_la_Mode
gptkb:The_Wild_Gallant
gptkb:Aureng-zebe
gptkb:The_Conquest_of_Granada
gptkb:The_Indian_Emperour
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Dryden
gptkb:Erasmus_Henry_Dryden
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5