Author:John Dryden

John Dryden
(1631–1700)

John Dryden

Works

Collected works

• The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq. (1717), in six volumes. vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4, vol 5, vol 6
• Miscellaneous works of John Dryden: containing all his original poems, tales, and translations (1760), in four volumes. vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4
• The works of John Dryden, 1808 vol 1 (Life), Plays: vol 2, vol 3, vol 4, vol 5, vol 6, vol 7, vol 8, Poems: vol 9, vol 10, vol 11, vol 12, vol 13 (Juvenal, Persius, Virgil), vol 14, vol 15, vol 16, vol 17, vol 18,

Individual poems

• "Perseus: The Third Satyr" (1643)
• "Upon the Death of Lord Hastings" (1649)
• "To John Hoddesdon" (1650)
• "Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell" (1659)
• "To my honored friend Sir Robert Howard, on his excellent poem" (1660)
• The Indian Queen (with Sir Robert Howard)
• The Indian Emperor
• Astræa Redux. A Poem On the Happy Restoration and Return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second (1662)
• To his Sacred Majesty, a Panegyrick on his Coronation (1662)
• To my Lord Chancellor, Presented on New-years-day (1662)
• 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 (1666)
• Essay Upon Satire
• Oedipus (1679) with Nathaniel Lee
• Absalom and Achitophel (1682)
• The Medal: A Satire Against Sedition
• 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) (external scan)
• "To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse" (1684)
• Alexander's Feast (1697)
• Mac Flecknoe
• To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
• The Hind and the Panther, a poem in three parts (1687) (transcription project)
• 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

• Aureng-zebe, 1675
• 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 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 (1727), by Ovid (translation, in part)
• Translations from Persius, by Persius
• Translations from Lucretius, by Lucretius
• 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 (1703), in three 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

• An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668)

Works about Dryden

• "John Dryden," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 40−47), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "John Dryden," in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, Volume 2, pp. 1–209
• "John Dryden," in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853)
• "Dryden, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Dryden, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 7) (1878)
• "Dryden, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Dryden, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "John Dryden," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)