Mac Flecknoe, Or A Satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T.S.

John Dryden (9 August 1631 – 1 May 1700) (nicknamed Town-Bayes) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott named him "Glorious John." He was Poet Laureate in 1688.