each other and are ready to meet all hardships together. When
they are driven out o f Eden, Eve says to Adam:
“.................... but novy lead on;
In me is no delay; with thee to go
Is to stay here; without thee to stay
Is to go hence unwillingly; thou to me
Art al'i things under Heaven, all places thou
Who for my w illful crime art banished hence” .
Thus, in his “Paradise Lost” John Milton had created the images
o f Adam and Еле, the first man and wom an, who were faithful to
their love.
John Drydcn
(1631-1700)
John Dryden w as an outstanding English poet from the
Restoration in 1660 to the end o f the 17 th century. He was bom to
a Puritan fam ily in London and graduated from Cambridge
University in 1654.
Dryden wrote verse in several forms: odes, poetic drama, biting
satires, and translations o f classic authors. His early poem “Heroic
Stanzas on ths Death o f Cromwell“ was published in 1659. A
year later it was followed by “Astraea Redux”, which celebrated
the Restoration o f the Stuart line to the throne.
In 1667 Dryden published “A nnus M irab ilis” , a poem
commemorating three events o f the previous year: the end o f the
plague, the Great Fire o f London, and the Dutch War. This is the
most unusual feat in transferring almost immediately contemporary
events into poetry.
Dryden wrote notab e prose as well, including literary criticism
o f Shakespeare, Chaucer, and others. His venture into political
satire began in 1681, with the publication o f “Absalom and
Achitophel”, written after an unsuccessful attempt by Charles’
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