📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 9 March 1689, #ThomasShadwell was appointed #PoetLaureate, after the previous Laureate, #JohnDryden, a Catholic, refused to swear the oath of allegiance to newly crowned Protestants William III of Orange and Mary II. #Poetry
In the 17th century John Dryden wrote about thin partitions.
The boundaries between love and hate, genius and madness, life and death.
He was an English poet, translator, playwright and literary critic.
In 1688 he was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.
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#JohnDryden
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #Breakfast
Henry Purcell, Brandon J. Acker, Douglas Balliett, John Dryden & Reginald Mobley:
🎵 Oedipus, Z. 583: No. 2, Music for a While
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“Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.”
#JohnDryden #literarybirthdays
“I am sore wounded but not slain
I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again”
#JohnDryden #literarybirthdays
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
#JohnDryden #literarybirthdays
“Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.”
Poems: allpoetry.com/John-Henry-D...
✒️ #JohnDryden, English poet (First Poet Laureate 1668-1700) and playwright, was #BOTD 19 August 1631. #Poetry #Literature
#GodfreyKneller (1646-1723), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of #JohnDryden (1631-1700)
ca. 1697
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
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#JohnDryden (1631-1700), born at Aldwincle in rural #Northamptonshire, poet, playwright, essayist, translator.
"Önce biz alışkanlıklarımızı oluştururuz, sonra da alışkanlıklarımız bizi oluşturur."
#JohnDryden
İngiliz şair, eleştirmen, çevirmenin aramızdan ayrılışının 325. yılında saygıyla..
"Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."
✒ #JohnDryden, English poet, playwright, critic, and England's first Poet Laureate, passed away #OTD 12 May 1700. #Poetry
“Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.”
✒️ #JohnDryden, first British Poet Laureate (1668-1688), #DOTD 1 May 1700. #Poetry
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
✒️ #OTD in the #History of #Literature 13 April 1668, #JohnDryden was appointed the first English Poet Laureate by Charles II. #Poetry
Publishing today!
The Catholicism of literature in the age of the Book of Common Prayer - Poetry, plays, works, 1558-1689
By Thomas Rist bit.ly/3DFAih2
The book covers #WilliamShakespeare #BenJonson #ThomasMiddleton #QueenHenriettaMaria #JohnDonne #JohnDryden #MargaretCavendish #AphraBehn
🔴 1689 #thomasshadwell appointed second English Poet Laureate by William and Mary after #johndryden refuses to swear oaths of allegiance to the new monarchs
🔴 1776 #adamsmith publishes the influential economics book "The Wealth of Nations"
#todayinhistory
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📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 9 March 1689, #ThomasShadwell was appointed #PoetLaureate, after the previous Laureate, #JohnDryden, a Catholic, refused to swear the oath of allegiance to newly crowned Protestants William III of Orange and Mary II. #Poetry
When Jubal struck the corded shell, His list'ning brethren stood around And wond'ring, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound: Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot music raise and quell! A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 John Dryden
The power of music!
#poetry #johndryden
"Beware the fury of a patient man."- #JohnDryden
#THERESISTANCE
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBC Radio 3's #SaturdayMorning
George Frideric Handel & John Dryden:
🎵 Ode for St Cecilia's Day, HWV 76 - Solo and Chorus. As from the Pow'r of Sacred Lays
#BBCRadio3 #GeorgeFridericHandel #JohnDryden
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