John Dryden’s dusty legacy belies his literary significance. The undisputed premier poet of the second half of the 17th century, the era in which he wrote came to be known as “the age of Dryden”. Heavily influencing his similarly prodigious younger contemporary, Alexander Pope, TS Eliot once said, “Dryden is the ancestor of nearly all that is best in the poetry of the eighteenth century”.
The success of the International Opera Awards is intellectual rigour
At the awards ceremony in Munich this year, a jury dug deep into the purpose of opera and its impact on society.
