# The Age of Dryden Author: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Genre: Category: Classics of Literature Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39817 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Age+of+Dryden+Garnett&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary John Dryden was born August 9, 1631, at Aldwinkle All Saints, between Thrapston and Oundle, in Northamptonshire. He was the grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, baronet, of Canons Ashby, in the same county; and his father possessed a small landed property, which he transmitted to the poet. Dryden maintained a connection with his native county all his life, but it was never close; of the rest of the world, outside London and Cambridge, he only occasionally saw anything. Few of our great writers have been so thoroughly identified with the metropolis, of which he became an inhabitant at an early age by his entry at Westminster School, the precise date of which is unknown. Locke and South were amo... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-dryden-39817/chapters/7/index.md)