translator playwright dominated literary life restoration england point period came known literary circles age dryden established heroic couplet standard form english poetry writing successful satires religious pieces fables epigrams compliments prologues plays also introduced alexandrine triplet form poems translations criticism established poetic diction appropriate heroic couplet dryden 's greatest achievements satiric verse works like mock heroic ''macflecknoe'' w h auden referred
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