English poet laureate, dramatist, and critic; author of Of Dramatick Poesie (1667), Absalom and Achitophel (1681), Alexander's Feast; or the Power of Musique (1697), The Works of Virgil translated into English Verse (1697), and Fables (1700).

REFERENCES TO John Dryden:

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 12 June 1796 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to John May, 22 January 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Sydney Smith to an anonymous correspondent, on education, [1800 c.?] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 8 July 1801 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, July 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

George Ellis to Walter Scott, [May? 1805] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Walter Scott to George Ellis, 17 October 1805 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Walter Scott to George Ellis, [November? 1805] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

William Wordsworth to Walter Scott, 7 November 1805 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Walter Scott to George Ellis, 7 April 1806 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Walter Scott to Lady Louisa Stuart, 16 June 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

George Ellis to Walter Scott, 23 September 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Thomas Campbell to John Murray, 28 January 1809 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

R. C. Dallas to Lord Byron, 7 February 1809 in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824)

Samuel Rogers to Richard Sharp, [1810?] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 July 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

George Canning to Walter Scott, 26 July 1811 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Edward Daniel Clarke to Lord Byron, [March 1812] in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824)

Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 4 April 1812 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, [September 1812] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Lord Byron to Lord Holland, 25 September 1812 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Walter Scott to Robert Southey, 4 September 1813 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 5 September 1813 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Walter Scott to Robert Southey, 13 November 1813 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

John Murray to Lord Byron, 8 February 1814 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Samuel Rogers to an unnamed young poet, [1815] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Lord Holland to Samuel Rogers, [November? 1818] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921)

Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 28 October 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 23 April 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Sydney Smith to Douglas Smith, [Summer 1820] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 22 December 1820 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 October 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Charles Lamb to Sarah James, [16 April? 1829] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Sydney Smith to George Philips, 28 February 1836 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Lord Holland to Samuel Rogers, 25 December 1838 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 4 October 1840 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)