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Mac Flecknoe (full title:
Mac Flecknoe; or, A
satyr upon the True-Blue-Protestant Poet, T.S.) is a
verse mock-heroic
satire written by John Dryden. It...
- by
Andrew Marvell in 1681 and by John
Dryden in
Mac Flecknoe in 1682.
Little is
known of
Flecknoe's life. He was
probably of
English birth, from Northamptonshire...
- Books. ISBN 978-1406724882. Wilding, Michael, 'Allusion and
Innuendo in
MacFlecknoe',
Essays in Criticism, 19 (1969) 355–70
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- mock-epic
opening (as had Pope's Rape of the Lock and as had Dryden's
MacFlecknoe),
calling all the
muses to
witness the
glory of Philips's
prosodic reform:...
- itself, however, the idea
seems to have come most
clearly from
MacFlecknoe.
MacFlecknoe is a poem
celebrating the
apotheosis of
Thomas Shadwell, whom Dryden...
- Favourite, or the Earl of Es**** John
Banks –
Vertue Betray'd John
Dryden –
MacFlecknoe John
Dryden and
Nathaniel Lee – The Duke of
Guise Thomas d'Urfey The...
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perfect sense appliable (i.e., applicable) to the
person named."
Dryden in
MacFlecknoe disdainfully called the
pastime the "torturing of one poor word ten thousand...
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character of Till Eulenspiegel.
Another common example is John Dryden's
Mac Flecknoe, a poem that
employs extensive scatological imagery to
ridicule Dryden's...
- not
primarily in the form of mockery.
Dryden imitated the
Aeneid in "
MacFlecknoe" to
describe the
apotheosis of a dull poet, but the
imitation made fun...
- (written
during the
Interregnum but
published in the Restoration), Dryden's
MacFlecknoe set up the
satirical parody.
Dryden was
himself not of
noble blood, and...
