Dryden Location of Dryden in New York Coordinates:: Country United States Area • Total 94.33 sq mi (244.31 km 2) • Land 93.64 sq mi (242.53 km 2) • Water 0.69 sq mi (1.79 km 2) 0.31% Population () • Total 14,435 • Estimate (2016) 14,921 • Density 159.34/sq mi (61.52/km 2) () • Summer () EDT () 36-109-20962 Website Dryden is a in,,. The population was 14,435 at the 2010 census. The town contains two: one also named and one named. The town is on the county's eastern border, east of, in the region. This section needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2009) () The region was part of the used to pay soldiers of the.

It is named for (1631–1700), the English poet and translator of (note this is the name of the town adjoining Dryden to the east). Dryden was also the translator of Plutarch's Lives which was probably used as a source for many of the names in the Military Tract by in 1790.

The first settler arrived around 1797. The town of Dryden was established in 1803 from part of the town of. In 1856, some areas in the southwest part of Dryden were given to due to their remoteness from the eponymous village.

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In 2009, Dryden's Southworth Library sold an original manuscript of an Abraham Lincoln speech that had been delivered at the White House after his re-election. The document had been in the library's possession since 1926. It sold for $3.44 million, a record-high selling price for an American historical document at an auction. The was listed on the in 1984, as was the in 1993.

Geography [ ] According to the, the town has a total area of 94.2 square miles (243.9 km²), of which, 93.9 square miles (243.1 km²) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.8 km²) of it (0.31%) is water. The east town line is the border of, where it borders and. Continuing clockwise, bordering towns are,,,, and. Intersects at Dryden village. Crosses the southwest part of the town, and crosses the central part and intersects NY-38 in Freeville.

A small part of crosses the northwest corner of Dryden. Cascadilla Creek flows out the west side of Dryden, as does Fall Creek and, in the far southwest corner of the town, Six Mile Creek. Virgil Creek is a major tributary of Fall Creek, entering it in Freeville after passing through the village of Dryden. Demographics [ ] Historical population Census Pop.%± 3,951 — 5,206 31.8% 5,446 4.6% 5,122 −5.9% 4,962 −3.1% 4,818 −2.9% 4,805 −0.3% 4,043 −15.9% 3,785 −6.4% 3,590 −5.2% 3,186 −11.3% 3,534 10.9% 3,947 11.7% 5,006 26.8% 7,353 46.9% 9,770 32.9% 12,156 24.4% 13,251 9.0% 13,532 2.1% 14,435 6.7% Est. 2016 14,921 3.4% U.S.

Decennial Census As of the of 2010, there were 14,435 people, 6,016 households, and 3,555 families residing in the town. The was 153.9 people per square mile (57.3/km²). There were 6,418 housing units at an average density of 68.4 per square mile (25.4/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 93.7%, 4.2% or, 1.2%, 2.7%, 0.1%, and 1.2% from. Or of any race were 3.1% of the population. There were 6,016 households out of which 26.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.5% were living together, 10.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.9% were non-families. 27.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 2.85. In the town, the population was spread out with 28.3% under the age of 21, 7.6% from 20 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 29.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37.6 years. For every 100 females there were 100.0 males.

For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.6 males. The median income for a household in the town was $60,514, and the median income for a family was $72,596. Males had a median income of $46,587 versus $45,200 for females.

The for the town was $30,866. About 4.4% of families and 9.5% of the population were below the, including 11.3% of those under age 18 and 2.6% of those age 65 or over. Of the population 25 years and over, 23.5% had a graduate or professional degree, 20.2% had a bachelor's degree, 9.1% had an associate's, 18.7% had matriculated at a college, 21.3% had a high-school diploma, and 7.2% had not graduated from high school. More than half of all housing units in the town were built between 1970 and 2000. Of the total housing stock, the median value was $155,800, and the median monthly rent was $771. Communities and locations in the Town of Dryden [ ] • Bethel Grove – A on NY-79 in the southwest part of the town. • – A village located on NY-13.

• – A small near the east town line. • Dryden Lake – A conservation area by the east town line. • Ellis (or 'Ellis Hollow') – A hamlet in the southwest part of the town. The was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. • Etna – A hamlet located near Ithaca. • – A village located on NY-38.

• Hibbards Corners – A location in the western part of the town. • Howland Corners – A location at the west town line on NY-34B. • Lacy Corners – A hamlet north of Dryden village. • Malloryville – A location in the northeast part of Dryden. • Peruton – A location by the north town line. • Red Mills – A hamlet northeast of Freeville.

• Smith Corners – A location at the west town line south of Howland Corners. • – A hamlet located near the west town line on NY-366. • West Dryden – A hamlet in the northwest part of Dryden. The was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. • Willow Glen – A location west of Dryden village on NY-13.

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For other people of the same name, see. John Dryden Born ( 1631-08-19)19 August 1631,, Northamptonshire, England Died 12 May 1700 ( 1700-05-12) (aged 68) London, England Occupation poet, literary critic, playwright, librettist Alma mater, Notable works,, John Dryden (; 19 August [ 9 August] 1631 – 12 May [ 1 May] 1700) was an English,,, and who was made England's first in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Called him 'Glorious John'. Contents • • • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Dryden was born in the village of near in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was rector of.

He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson of (1553–1632), and wife Frances Wilkes, landowning gentry who supported the Puritan cause and Parliament. He was a second cousin once removed of. As a boy Dryden lived in the nearby village of, where it is likely that he received his first education. In 1644 he was sent to as a King's Scholar where his headmaster was Dr., a charismatic teacher and severe disciplinarian. Having recently been re-founded by Elizabeth I, Westminster during this period embraced a very different religious and political spirit encouraging royalism and. Whatever Dryden's response to this was, he clearly respected the headmaster and would later send two of his sons to school at Westminster.

As a humanist public school, Westminster maintained a curriculum which trained pupils in the art of rhetoric and the presentation of arguments for both sides of a given issue. This is a skill which would remain with Dryden and influence his later writing and thinking, as much of it displays these dialectical patterns.

The Westminster curriculum included weekly translation assignments which developed Dryden's capacity for assimilation. This was also to be exhibited in his later works. His years at Westminster were not uneventful, and his first published poem, an elegy with a strong royalist feel on the death of his schoolmate Henry, Lord Hastings from, alludes to the execution of King Charles I, which took place on 30 January 1649, very near the school where Dr. Busby had first prayed for the King and then locked in his schoolboys to prevent their attending the spectacle. In 1650 Dryden went up to.

Here he would have experienced a return to the religious and political ethos of his childhood: the Master of Trinity was a Puritan preacher by the name of who had been a rector in Dryden's home village. Though there is little specific information on Dryden's undergraduate years, he would most certainly have followed the standard curriculum of classics, rhetoric, and mathematics. In 1654 he obtained his BA, graduating top of the list for Trinity that year. In June of the same year Dryden's father died, leaving him some land which generated a little income, but not enough to live on. Returning to London during, Dryden obtained work with Cromwell's Secretary of State,.

This appointment may have been the result of influence exercised on his behalf by his cousin the Lord Chamberlain, Sir. At Cromwell's funeral on 23 November 1658 Dryden processed with the Puritan poets and.

Hondata S200 Rom Editor V4 there. Shortly thereafter he published his first important poem, Heroic Stanzas (1658), a eulogy on Cromwell's death which is cautious and prudent in its emotional display. In 1660 Dryden celebrated the of the monarchy and the return of with, an authentic royalist. In this work the interregnum is illustrated as a time of anarchy, and Charles is seen as the restorer of peace and order. Later life and career [ ] After the Restoration, as Dryden quickly established himself as the leading poet and literary critic of his day, he transferred his allegiances to the new government. Along with Astraea Redux, Dryden welcomed the new regime with two more panegyrics: To His Sacred Majesty: A Panegyric on his Coronation (1662) and To My Lord Chancellor (1662). These poems suggest that Dryden was looking to court a possible patron, but he was to instead make a living in writing for publishers, not for the aristocracy, and thus ultimately for the reading public.

These, and his other nondramatic poems, are occasional—that is, they celebrate public events. Thus they are written for the nation rather than the self, and the (as he would later become) is obliged to write a certain number of these per annum. In November 1662 Dryden was proposed for membership in the, and he was elected an early fellow. However, Dryden was inactive in Society affairs and in 1666 was expelled for non-payment of his dues.

Dryden, by James Maubert, c. 1695 On 1 December 1663 Dryden married the royalist sister of Sir —Lady Elizabeth. Dryden's works occasionally contain outbursts against the married state but also celebrations of the same. Thus, little is known of the intimate side of his marriage. Lady Elizabeth bore three sons and outlived her husband.

With the reopening of the theatres in 1660 after the Puritan ban, Dryden began writing plays. His first play appeared in 1663, and was not successful, but was still promising, and from 1668 on he was contracted to produce three plays a year for the in which he became a shareholder.

During the 1660s and 1670s, theatrical writing was his main source of income. He led the way in, his best-known work being (1673), as well as heroic tragedy and regular tragedy, in which his greatest success was (1678). Dryden was never satisfied with his theatrical writings and frequently suggested that his talents were wasted on unworthy audiences. He thus was making a bid for poetic fame off-stage. In 1667, around the same time his dramatic career began, he published, a lengthy historical poem which described the English defeat of the Dutch naval fleet and the Great Fire of London in 1666.

It was a modern epic in pentameter quatrains that established him as the preeminent poet of his generation, and was crucial in his attaining the posts of Poet Laureate (1668) and historiographer royal (1670). When the closed the theatres in 1665, Dryden retreated to Wiltshire where he wrote Of Dramatick Poesie (1668), arguably the best of his unsystematic prefaces and essays. Dryden constantly defended his own literary practice, and Of Dramatick Poesie, the longest of his critical works, takes the form of a dialogue in which four characters—each based on a prominent contemporary, with Dryden himself as 'Neander'—debate the merits of classical, French and English drama. The greater part of his critical works introduce problems which he is eager to discuss, and show the work of a writer of independent mind who feels strongly about his own ideas, ideas which demonstrate the breadth of his reading. He felt strongly about the relation of the poet to tradition and the creative process, and his best heroic play (1675) has a prologue which denounces the use of rhyme in serious drama. His play (1678) was written in blank verse, and was to immediately follow Aureng-Zebe. On 18 December 1679 he was attacked in Rose Alley near his home in by thugs hired by, with whom he had a long-standing conflict.

Dryden's greatest achievements were in satiric verse: the mock-heroic, a more personal product of his laureate years, was a lampoon circulated in manuscript and an attack on the playwright. Dryden's main goal in the work is to 'satirize Shadwell, ostensibly for his offenses against literature but more immediately we may suppose for his habitual badgering of him on the stage and in print.' It is not a belittling form of satire, but rather one which makes his object great in ways which are unexpected, transferring the ridiculous into poetry. This line of satire continued with (1681) and The Medal (1682).

His other major works from this period are the religious poems (1682), written from the position of a member of the Church of England; his 1683 edition of Plutarch's Lives Translated From the Greek by Several Hands in which he introduced the word biography to English readers; and, (1687) which celebrates his conversion to. Frontispiece and title page, vol. II, 1716 edition, Works of Virgil translated by Dryden He wrote Britannia Rediviva celebrating the birth of a son and heir to the Catholic King and Queen on 10 June 1688. When later in the same year James II was deposed in the, Dryden's refusal to take the oaths of allegiance to the new monarchs, William and Mary, left him out of favour at court. Succeeded him as Poet Laureate, and he was forced to give up his public offices and live by the proceeds of his pen. Dryden translated works by,,,, and, a task which he found far more satisfying than writing for the stage.

In 1694 he began work on what would be his most ambitious and defining work as translator, The Works of Virgil (1697), which was published by subscription. The publication of the translation of was a national event and brought Dryden the sum of £1,400.

His final translations appeared in the volume Fables Ancient and Modern (1700), a series of episodes from,, and, as well as modernised adaptations from interspersed with Dryden's own poems. As a translator, he made great literary works in the older languages available to readers of English. Dryden died on 12 May 1700, and was initially buried in St. Anne's cemetery in Soho, before being exhumed and reburied in ten days later. He was the subject of poetic eulogies, such as Luctus Brittannici: or the Tears of the British Muses; for the Death of John Dryden, Esq.

(London, 1700), and. A commemorates Dryden at 43 Gerrard Street in London's. He lived at 137 from 1682 to 1686 and at 43 Gerrard Street from 1686 until his death. Reputation and influence [ ]. Dryden near end of his life Dryden was the dominant literary figure and influence of his age. He established the as a standard form of English poetry by writing successful satires, religious pieces, fables, epigrams, compliments, prologues, and plays with it; he also introduced the and triplet into the form. In his poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet— referred to him as 'the master of the ' —that was a model for his contemporaries and for much of the 18th century.

The considerable loss felt by the English literary community at his death was evident in the elegies written about him. Dryden's heroic couplet became the dominant poetic form of the 18th century. Was heavily influenced by Dryden and often borrowed from him; other writers were equally influenced by Dryden and Pope. Pope famously praised Dryden's versification in his imitation of 's Epistle II.i: 'Dryden taught to join / The varying pause, the full resounding line, / The long majestic march, and energy divine.' Samuel Johnson summed up the general attitude with his remark that 'the veneration with which his name is pronounced by every cultivator of English literature, is paid to him as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry.'

His poems were very widely read, and are often quoted, for instance, in and Johnson's essays. Johnson also noted, however, that 'He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others. Simplicity gave him no pleasure.'

Readers in the first half of the 18th century did not mind this too much, but later generations considered Dryden's absence of sensibility a fault. One of the first attacks on Dryden's reputation was by, who complained that Dryden's descriptions of natural objects in his translations from Virgil were much inferior to the originals. However, several of Wordsworth's contemporaries, such as,, and (who edited Dryden's works), were still keen admirers of Dryden. Besides, Wordsworth did admire many of Dryden's poems, and his famous 'Intimations of Immortality' ode owes something stylistically to Dryden's '. Admired the 'Fables', and imitated them in his poem Lamia. Later 19th century writers had little use for verse satire, Pope, or Dryden; Matthew Arnold famously dismissed them as 'classics of our prose.' He did have a committed admirer in, and was a prominent figure in quotation books such as Bartlett's, but the next major poet to take an interest in Dryden was, who wrote that he was 'the ancestor of nearly all that is best in the poetry of the eighteenth century', and that 'we cannot fully enjoy or rightly estimate a hundred years of English poetry unless we fully enjoy Dryden.'

However, in the same essay, Eliot accused Dryden of having a 'commonplace mind'. Download Andres Segovia Asturias Pdf Free more. Critical interest in Dryden has increased recently, but, as a relatively straightforward writer (, another modern admirer of Dryden, compared his 'flat' use of language with Donne's interest in the 'echoes and recesses of words' ), his work has not occasioned as much interest as 's, 's or Pope's. Dryden, believed the first to posit that English sentences should not end in prepositions because Latin sentences cannot Dryden is believed to be the first person to posit that English sentences should not end in prepositions because Latin sentences cannot end in prepositions. Dryden created the proscription against in 1672 when he objected to 's 1611 phrase, 'the bodies that those souls were frighted from', though he did not provide the rationale for his preference.

Dryden often translated his writing into Latin, to check whether his writing was concise and elegant, Latin being considered an elegant and long-lived language with which to compare; then Dryden translated his writing back to English according to Latin-grammar usage. As Latin does not have sentences ending in prepositions, Dryden may have applied Latin grammar to English, thus forming the rule of no sentence-ending prepositions, subsequently adopted by other writers.

The phrase 'blaze of glory' is believed to have originated in Dryden's 1686 poem, referring to the throne of God as a 'blaze of glory that forbids the sight'. Poetic style [ ] What Dryden achieved in his poetry was neither the emotional excitement of the early nineteenth-century nor the intellectual complexities of the. His subject matter was often factual, and he aimed at expressing his thoughts in the most precise and concentrated manner. Although he uses formal structures such as heroic couplets, he tried to recreate the natural rhythm of speech, and he knew that different subjects need different kinds of verse.

In his preface to he says that 'the expressions of a poem designed purely for instruction ought to be plain and natural, yet majestic. The florid, elevated and figurative way is for the passions; for (these) are begotten in the soul by showing the objects out of their true proportion. A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.'

Translation style [ ] While Dryden had many admirers, he also had his share of critics, among them. Van Doren complained that in translating Virgil's Aeneid, Dryden had added 'a fund of phrases with which he could expand any passage that seemed to him curt'.

Dryden did not feel such expansion was a fault, arguing that as Latin is a naturally concise language it cannot be duly represented by a comparable number of words in English. 'He.recognized that Virgil 'had the advantage of a language wherein much may be comprehended in a little space' (5:329–30). The 'way to please the best Judges.is not to Translate a Poet literally; and Virgil least of any other' (5:329)' For example, take lines 789–795 of Book 2 when Aeneas sees and receives a message from the ghost of his wife, Creusa. I trust our common issue to your care.' She said, and gliding pass'd unseen in air. I strove to speak: but horror tied my tongue; And thrice about her neck my arms I flung, And, thrice deceiv'd, on vain embraces hung. Light as an empty dream at break of day, Or as a blast of wind, she rush'd away.

Thus having pass'd the night in fruitless pain, I to my longing friends return again Dryden's translation is based on presumed authorial intent and smooth English. In line 790 the literal translation of 'haec ubi dicta dedit” is 'when she gave these words.” But 'she said” gets the point across, uses half the words, and makes for better English. A few lines later, with 'ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum; ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago', he alters the literal translation 'Thrice trying to give arms around her neck; thrice the image grasped in vain fled the hands', in order to fit it into meter and the emotion of the scene. In his own words, The way I have taken, is not so streight as Metaphrase, nor so loose as Paraphrase: Some things too I have omitted, and sometimes added of my own. Yet the omissions I hope, are but of Circumstances, and such as wou'd have no grace in English; and the Addition, I also hope, are easily deduc'd from Virgil's Sense. They will seem (at least I have the Vanity to think so), not struck into him, but growing out of him. An illustration in Dramatic works Dates given are (acted/published) and unless otherwise noted are taken from Scott's edition.

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193-4), New York and Chicago, USA Further reading [ ] Editions • The Works of John Dryden, 20 vols., ed. Swedenberg Jr. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956–2002) • John Dryden The Major Works, ed. By Keith Walker, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987) • The Works of John Dryden, ed. By David Marriott (Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1995) • John Dryden Selected Poems, ed.

By David Hopkins (London: Everyman Paperbacks, 1998) • John Dryden Selected Poems, ed. Swicker and David Bywaters (London: Penguin Books, 2001) Biography • Winn, James Anderson.

John Dryden and His World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987) Modern criticism • Eliot, T. S., 'John Dryden', in Selected Essays (London: Faber and Faber, 1932) • Hopkins, David, John Dryden, ed. By Isobel Armstrong (Tavistock: Northcote House Publishers, 2004) • Oden, Richard, L. Dryden and Shadwell, The Literary Controversy and 'Mac Flecknoe (1668–1679) (Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, Inc., Delmar, New York, 1977) • (2007).. • Stark, Ryan.

'John Dryden, New Philosophy, and Rhetoric', in Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2009) External links [ ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to. Wikiquote has quotations related to: has original works written by or about: • at • at • at (public domain audiobooks) • • at the Court offices Preceded by English 1668–1689 Succeeded by Preceded by English 1670–1689 Succeeded.