His cousin served as a judge at the trial of Charles I, and  he himself published his first work, 'Heroic Stanzas,' upon the  death of Cromwell. In the decade before his death
His cousin served as a judge at the trial of Charles I, and  he himself published his first work, 'Heroic Stanzas,' upon the  death of Cromwell. In the decade before his death in 1700, he  translated all of Virgil, much of Ovid, and the first book of the  Iliad. FTP, name the first poet laureate of England, author of '  MacFlecknoe' and 'Marriage a la Mode.'
His cousin served as a judge at the trial of Charles I, and  he himself published his first work, 'Heroic Stanzas,' upon the  death of Cromwell.
John Dryden