John Dryden
(1631–1700)
English poet, literary critic, and playwright

Works

Collected works

Individual poems

  • The Indian Queen (with Sir Robert Howard)
  • The Indian Emperor
  • Astrea Redux, a poem on the Restoration of King Charles II
  • A Panegyric on the Coronation of Charles II
  • An Address to Lord Chancellor Hyde
  • Satire on the Dutch
  • To her Royal Highness the Dutchess, on the Memorable Victory Gained by the Duke over the Hollanders
  • Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders
  • Essay Upon Satire
  • Oedipus (1679) with Nathaniel Lee
  • Absalom and Achitophel
  • The Medal: A Satire Against Sedition
  • Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell
  • Religio Laici
  • The Art of Poetry
  • Threnodia Augustalis, a funeral pindarick poem to the Memory of Charles II
  • Veni Creator Spiritus
  • The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses
  • The Death of Ajax
  • Story of Acis, Polyphemus and Galatea
  • Of the Pythagorean Philosophy
  • Canace to Macareus
  • Helen to Paris
  • Sylvia the Fair
  • Satyr to his muse (1682)
  • Alexander's Feast (1697)
  • Mac Flecknoe
  • To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
  • The Hind and the Panther, a poem in three parts (1687)
  • Secret Love, or The Maiden Queen (1667)
  • The Vindication, or, The parallel of the French Holy-League and the English League and Covenant turn'd into a seditious libell against the King and His Royal Highness by Thomas Hunt and the authors of The Reflections upon the Pretended Parallel in the play called The Duke of Guise (1683)
  • A Defence of the Papers written by the late King of blessed memory, and Duchess of York: against an Answer made to them (1686)

Plays

  • The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards (1667)
  • Sr Martin Mar-all, or, The Feign'd Innocence (1668)
  • Secret-love: or The Maiden-queen (1669)
  • The Wild Gallant (1669)
  • The Tempest, or, The Enchanted Island (1670), altered from The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
  • Tyrannick Love, or, The Royal Martyr (1670)
  • The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: in two parts (1672)
  • An Evening's Love, or, The Mock-Astrologer (1672)
  • Amboyna: a tragedy (1673)
  • Marriage a-la-mode: a comedy (1673)
  • The Assignation, or, Love in a Nunnery (1673)
  • The Rehearsal (1675)
  • The Rival Ladies: a tragi-comedy (1675)
  • Aureng-Zebe: a tragedy (1676)
  • The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: an opera (1677)
  • All for Love, or, The World Well Lost (1678)
  • Troilus and Cressida, or, Truth Found Too late (1679) altered from Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare.
  • Oedipus: a tragedy (1679), co-authored with Nathaniel Lee
  • Prologue to Caesar Borgia, son of Pope Alexander the Sixth: a tragedy (1680) by Nathaniel Lee
  • The Kind Keeper, or, Mr. Limberham (1680)
  • The Spanish Fryar, or, The Double Discovery (1681)
  • The Unhappy Favourite, or, The Earl of Essex (1682)
  • The Duke of Guise (1683)
  • Don Sebastian, King of Portugal (1690)
  • Amphitryon, or, The two Sosia's (1691)
  • Albion and Albanius: an opera (1691)
  • Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe (1692)
  • Love triumphant, or, Nature will prevail (1694)
  • Prologue to Sophonisba, or, Hannibal's overthrow (1704) (5th ed.) by Nathaniel Lee

Translations

  • Translations from Juvenal, by Juvenal
  • Translations from Ovid's Epistles, by Ovid
  • Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translation, in part)
  • Translations from Persius, by Persius
  • Translations from Homer, by Homer
  • The History of the League (1684) by Louis Maimbourg
  • The life of St. Francis Xavier, of the Society of Jesus, apostle of the Indies (1688), by Dominique Bouhours
  • De arte graphica. The art of painting (1695) Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
  • The Works of Virgil (1697), in four volumes, by Virgil
  • Fables ancient and modern: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with original poems (1700) (external scan)
  • The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: And of Aulus Persius Flaccus (1735), in part

Editor

  • Plutarch's Lives, sometimes erroneously credited as his translation

Others

Works about Dryden

Works by this author published before January 1, 1924 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

 
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