biography
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| lived:
| (c.1642–92)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Brandon, Norfolk, E England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, became a lawyer, and found success with his first satirical comedy, The Sullen Lovers (1668), and such later ‘comedies of manners’ as Epsom-Wells (1672). He carried on a literary feud with Dryden, whom he satirized, and who attacked him in turn in MacFlecknoe (1684) and other poems. He succeeded Dryden as poet laureate in 1689. |
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