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Astraea Redux
poem by Dryden
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discussed in biography
- In John Dryden: Youth and education
…welcoming him, publishing in June Astraea Redux, a poem of more than 300 lines in rhymed couplets. For the coronation in 1661, he wrote To His Sacred Majesty. These two poems were designed to dignify and strengthen the monarchy and to invest the young monarch with an aura of majesty,…
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place in English literature
- In English literature: Dryden
…to celebrate the Restoration itself, Astraea Redux (1660), invokes Roman ideas of the return of a golden age under Augustus Caesar in order to encourage similar hopes for England’s future; whereas in 1681 the Exclusion Crisis drew from Dryden one of his masterpieces, Absalom and Achitophel, in which the Old…
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