Critical Appreciationof John Dryden as a Poet
Abstract
Dryden is the greatest literary figure of the Restoration period. In his work, we have excellent
reflection of both the good and the evil tendencies of the age in which he lived. If we can think for a
moment of literature as a canal of water, we may appreciate the figure that Dryden is the „‟ lock by
which the waters of English Poetry were let down from the mountains of Shakespeare and Milton to the
plain of Pope.‟‟ Therefore the stands between two very different ages, and serves as a transition from
one to the other.
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