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CHAPTER I
COMMON HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTS
IN THE LIVES OF DRYDEN AND BYRON
Despite changes inevitably occurring over a span of
one hundred years, Restoration England---John Dryden's Eng-
land—and Regency England--George Gordon, Lord Byron's Eng-
land—were quite similar in some ways. "There were, in fact
. . . elements in life and letters which were common to the
whole period. . . . Augustans and Romantics, by their work
and manifestoes, compel us to consider them as more alien to
one another than they really were."1 Dryden came to matur-
ity before the Restoration, and Byron survived the Regency
by a few years, but the major part of their literary output
was created during these historical periods.
Politically and socially, the landed classes enjoyed
paramount importance in the years that Byron and Dryden wrote.
After Dryden's death (17OO), the power of the upper classes
continued, in varying degrees of importance, into Byron's
lifetime. This power served to "prolong artificially the
old monopoly of power by one class against the new forces of
Hi. V. B. Dyson and John Butt, Augustans and Romantics:
1689-1830 (London, 1950), p. 26.
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Kennelly, Laura B. Significant Parallels in the Heroes of John Dryden and Lord Byron, thesis, May 1969; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131101/m1/4/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .