JOHN DRYDEN: MAC FLECKNOE (WithText)

John Dryden Mac Fleck Noe ‘‘Glorious John Dryden’’, or ‘‘Glorious John’’, as Sir Walter Scott Christened him, is the great literary figure of the forty years that follow the Restoration (1660). Published anonymously in October 1682, Mac Flecknoe was Dryden’s, attack on his political and professional rival, Thomas Shadwell, but Dryden acknowledge authorship of the poem only after Shadwell’s death in 1692. Nothing could be more happy and ingenious than the plot of Mac Flecknoe, which later became the model of an even more renowned satire, Alexander Pope’s Dunciad (1728), also published anonymously at first. It is unique among personal satires in verse, the first mock-heroic poem in English. This Critical Study, Originally prepared by Dr. Raghukul Tilak, has now been thoroughly edited, revised and updated by Prof. Shakti Batra.

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