Q4) What is a satire? John Dryden, the poet is best known today as a satirist. Why? Justify.
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Satire is a kind of poetry, without a series of action, invented for the purging of our minds; in which human vices, ignorance, and errors, and all things besides, which are produced from them in every man, are severely reprehended; partly dramatical.
Today, John Dryden’s reputation is chiefly as a satirist of the Restoration period. Held up as a model for Jonathan Swift and especially Alexander Pope, he is usually studied as an esteemed precursor to the ‘Augustan mode’ of literature that flourished in the first half of the 18th century.
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Scholars have described Dryden’s critique in high-minded ways.
Dryden’s other masterpiece of verse-satire, the biblical allegory Absalom and Achitophel, does have an obviously positive agenda.
He was a master craftsman of tremendous literary talent and ambition, and no doubt he was motivated by a desire to uphold the values that he thought were under attack
The reality of his varied satirical works, however, suggests that as a satirist Dryden was more complex, less consistent and more capable of spite and partisan malice than he has usually been seen.