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Critical appreciation of poem Mack flechno

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Critical Evaluation

John Dryden was the first acknowledged master of poetic satire in English. Of his three major satires, Mac Flecknoe, consisting of 217 lines of rhymed iambic pentameter, was the first to be composed. The poem is a mock-epic attack against Thomas Shadwell (1640[?]-1692), a rival playwright. It stands as an example of many similar works that grew out of dramatic rivalry. The satire of the poem has been the subject of intensive scholarly and critical study because many puzzles and ambiguities concerning it remain unresolved. Neither the date of composition nor the occasion of Dryden’s writing the work is known with assurance, and some of the poem’s numerous topical allusions are unidentified.

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