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    Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
    Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
    Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
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    Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

    By T. S. Eliot

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    As one can probably guess from the title, this book is a biography of John Dryden, an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Interestingly, the author of this book is T. S. Eliot, who himself is a celebrated poet and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 5, 2021
    ISBN4066338086228
    Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
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    T. S. Eliot

    THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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