Brief biography of john dryden
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John Dryden
John Dryden (9 August 1631 – 1 May 1700) was an English poet laureate and playwright.
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He was the oldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering. As a boy Dryden lived in the nearby village of Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire. In 1644 he was sent to Westminster School.[1] In the late twentieth century a house at Westminster was founded in his name.
In 1650 Dryden went up to Trinity College, Cambridge. After graduating, he went to London.
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Dryden got work with the Secretary of State, John Thurloe.
On 1 December 1663 Dryden married the royalist sister of Sir Robert Howard—Lady Elizabeth. They had three sons.
His first play, The Wild Gallant was in 1663.
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It was not successful. But from 1668 on he was contracted to make three plays a year for the King's Company.
In 1693 Dryden famously said about English language that "We have yet no prosody, not so much tolerable dictionary, or a grammar, so that our language is in a manner b