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(Crossposted to anon's talk page.) Hi, 140.180.165.138, I see you added the year 1667 for the Essay of Dramatick Poesie to the text (though you left 1668 in the list of works). 1668 is the year usually given for the first edition of the EDP, do you have other information?-- Bishonen | Talk 05:02, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Um, now, my history might be a BIT off, for all I know, but I'm pretty sure John Dryden was not, in fact, written about by Plutarch. On account of Plutarch being a SLIGHTLY earlier figure than Mr. Drydan. So what's with the plutarch thing at the bottom of the page? AndrewLB 06:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
I think that the post Poet Laureat and the dates for which he was poet laureat should be included in the wiki-box at the top. Could anyone add this to all of the poet laureats? Hectorguinness ( talk) 14:39, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
The school in Whitby is probably named after their local politician, profiled at [ [1]] rather than this poet. The link offered in the article goes to a dead URL but the Internet Archive shows that the link mearly listed the name of the school, no attribution. [2] -- FrankenD ( talk) 02:00, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Presumably, in the inset box, you had intended the date of death to be 12 May 1700 New Style or 1 May 1700 Old Style? I cannot figure out a way to make this change myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.211.242.114 ( talk) 10:45, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I don't think so. Dryden attracted many, many satirical nicknames, but I haven't heard "Town-Bayes" before. No doubt somebody called him that at some point (the link supposed to demonstrate it doesn't work right for me), but that doesn't mean it deserves a prominent place in the lede. Dryden was, quite famously, satirized as "Bayes" in the Duke of Buckingham's The Rehearsal, but I wouldn't exactly call that usage a "nickname", either. I'm removing the parenthesis. Bishonen | talk 22:30, 31 October 2011 (UTC).
"Having recently been re-founded by Elizabeth I, Westminster..." Considering that Westminster was re-founded in 1560 and Dryden entered it in 1644 (84 years later), this seems a bit far-fetched. Would someone in the know like to change this? Wadh27 ( talk) 17:47, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
With all due respect to a recent editor of this article - Dryden is indeed famous (or infamous?) as the originator of this rule - unheard of before his time, and very frequently flouted ever since. This is (quite rightly) mentioned in the body of the article - but it really and truly does not belong in the lead, where (in splendid isolation from any real context) it has the effect of painting one of the originators of modern English style as a fussy pedant - whose strictures are more honoured in the breech than the observance. Not fair to either English usage, or Dryden himself. -- Soundofmusicals ( talk) 01:05, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Dryden was scornfully criticised by Housman in his lecture on poetry. If agreed, I could insert a brief passage. Seadowns ( talk) 17:47, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Did Dryden collaborate with Purcell, who set some of his works to music? Seadowns ( talk) 23:30, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
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(Crossposted to anon's talk page.) Hi, 140.180.165.138, I see you added the year 1667 for the Essay of Dramatick Poesie to the text (though you left 1668 in the list of works). 1668 is the year usually given for the first edition of the EDP, do you have other information?-- Bishonen | Talk 05:02, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Um, now, my history might be a BIT off, for all I know, but I'm pretty sure John Dryden was not, in fact, written about by Plutarch. On account of Plutarch being a SLIGHTLY earlier figure than Mr. Drydan. So what's with the plutarch thing at the bottom of the page? AndrewLB 06:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
I think that the post Poet Laureat and the dates for which he was poet laureat should be included in the wiki-box at the top. Could anyone add this to all of the poet laureats? Hectorguinness ( talk) 14:39, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
The school in Whitby is probably named after their local politician, profiled at [ [1]] rather than this poet. The link offered in the article goes to a dead URL but the Internet Archive shows that the link mearly listed the name of the school, no attribution. [2] -- FrankenD ( talk) 02:00, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Presumably, in the inset box, you had intended the date of death to be 12 May 1700 New Style or 1 May 1700 Old Style? I cannot figure out a way to make this change myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.211.242.114 ( talk) 10:45, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I don't think so. Dryden attracted many, many satirical nicknames, but I haven't heard "Town-Bayes" before. No doubt somebody called him that at some point (the link supposed to demonstrate it doesn't work right for me), but that doesn't mean it deserves a prominent place in the lede. Dryden was, quite famously, satirized as "Bayes" in the Duke of Buckingham's The Rehearsal, but I wouldn't exactly call that usage a "nickname", either. I'm removing the parenthesis. Bishonen | talk 22:30, 31 October 2011 (UTC).
"Having recently been re-founded by Elizabeth I, Westminster..." Considering that Westminster was re-founded in 1560 and Dryden entered it in 1644 (84 years later), this seems a bit far-fetched. Would someone in the know like to change this? Wadh27 ( talk) 17:47, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
With all due respect to a recent editor of this article - Dryden is indeed famous (or infamous?) as the originator of this rule - unheard of before his time, and very frequently flouted ever since. This is (quite rightly) mentioned in the body of the article - but it really and truly does not belong in the lead, where (in splendid isolation from any real context) it has the effect of painting one of the originators of modern English style as a fussy pedant - whose strictures are more honoured in the breech than the observance. Not fair to either English usage, or Dryden himself. -- Soundofmusicals ( talk) 01:05, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Dryden was scornfully criticised by Housman in his lecture on poetry. If agreed, I could insert a brief passage. Seadowns ( talk) 17:47, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Did Dryden collaborate with Purcell, who set some of his works to music? Seadowns ( talk) 23:30, 17 February 2021 (UTC)