Q: "Here lies my wife, here let her rest! Now she is at rest, and so am I!" This was a proposed epitaph to be engraved on the tomb of his wife. Who was he?
a) John Milton
b) John Bunyan
c) John Dryden
d) John Keats
Correct answer: c) John Dryden
Explanation of English Literature MCQs Test
John Dryden
John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Epitaphs are the use of which people have been led, either by ignorance or a taste for satire. John Dryden proposed an epitaph to be engraved on the tomb of his wife.
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