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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...
- itself, however, the idea seems to have come most clearly from MacFlecknoe. MacFlecknoe is a poem celebrating the apotheosis of Thomas Shadwell, whom Dryden...
- Books. ISBN 978-1406724882. Wilding, Michael, 'Allusion and Innuendo in MacFlecknoe', Essays in Criticism, 19 (1969) 355–70 Wikimedia Commons has media related...
- 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:...
- 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...
- 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...
- Wantley, an anonymous 17th century ballad Hudibras by Samuel Butler "MacFlecknoe", by John Dryden A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift The Rape of the Lock...