page_title: John Dryden
section_title: Other works
hierarchical_section_title: John Dryden / Selected works / Other works
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Prince James as young boy in white dress and robes, with blue and gold blanket, being crowned by two angels.
context_page_description: John Dryden was 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. Romanticist writer Sir Walter Scott called him "Glorious John".
context_section_description: Astraea Redux, 1660
  Annus Mirabilis (poem), 1667
  An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, 1668
  Absalom and Achitophel, 1681
  Mac Flecknoe, 1682
  The Medal, 1682
  Religio Laici, 1682
  Threnodia Augustalis, 1685
  The Hind and the Panther, 1687
  A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
  Britannia Rediviva, 1688, written to mark the birth of James, Prince of Wales.
  Epigram on Milton, 1688
  Creator Spirit, by whose aid, 1690. Translation of Rabanus Maurus' Veni Creator Spiritus
  The Works of Virgil, 1697
  Alexander's Feast, 1697
  Fables, Ancient and Modern, 1700
  The Art of Satire
  To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, 1684
caption: The infant Prince of Wales whose birth Dryden celebrated in Britannia Rediviva
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