In one work of criticism, this writer used the backdrop of a naval battle between the English and Dutch for a discussion of literature. He utilized Neander as a mouthpiece for his own opinions in Of Dramatic Poesy. He wrote of a monarch who chose a man "mature in dullness from his tender years" and "stands comfirm'd in full stupidity." In one satire, this writer compared King Charles II to David, and the Duke of Monmouth and the Earl of Shaftesbury to the title characters. His longest poem, describing his conversion to 
In one work of criticism, this writer used the backdrop of a naval battle between the English and Dutch for a discussion of literature. He utilized Neander as a mouthpiece for his own opinions in Of Dramatic Poesy. He wrote of a monarch who chose a man "mature in dullness from his tender years" and "stands comfirm'd in full stupidity." In one satire, this writer compared King Charles II to David, and the Duke of Monmouth and the Earl of Shaftesbury to the title characters. His longest poem, describing his conversion to Catholicism, is The Hind and the Panther. Name the author of "MacFlecknoe" and Absalom and Achitophel.
In one work of criticism, this writer used the backdrop of a naval battle between the English and Dutch for a discussion of literature.
John Dryden