=Dodsley, Robert.= 1703-1764. Poet and publisher. Author Economy of Human Life, etc. Best known by his Collection of Old Plays. _See edition by W. Carew Hazlitt, 1875._ =Donne [d[)o]n], John.= 1573-1631. Poet and theologian. His versification is rugged, and his style obscure and fantastic, but his poems, both religious and amatory, contain much beauty of thought. His seven Satires are vigorous efforts. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _See Dean Alford's 6 vol. edition, 8vo, London, 1838._ _Pub. Hou._ =Doran, John.= 1807-1878. Biographer. Author Lives of Queens of the House of Hanover, Monarchs Retired from Business, Hist. Court Fools, New Pictures and Old Panels, etc. _Pub. Arm._ =Dorset, 6th Earl of.= See Sackville, Geo. =Dorset, 1st Earl of.= See Sackville, Thos. See Buckhurst, Lord. =Douglas, Gawain.= 1474-1522. Bp. Dunkeld. Scotch poet. D. was the first metrical translator of Virgil in Gt. Britain. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _See complete Eng. edition by J. Small, 1874._ =Dowden, Edward.= 184 Poet and Shakespearean scholar. Author Shakespeare's Mind and Art, Southey, in Eng. Men of Letters, Poems, etc. _Pub. Har._ =Drayton, Michael.= 1563-1631. Poet. His chief work is the Polyolbion, a poetical description of Britain in 100,000 lines. A far better work is the Nymphidia, an exquisitely graceful, mock heroic fairy poem. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ =Drummond, William= [of Hawthornden]. 1585-1649. Scotch poet. His Sonnets are his best production. _See Memoirs by Masson, 1863._ _Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ =Dryden, John.= 1631-1700. Poet and dramatist. His verse takes a wide range: in satire we have Absalom and Achitophel, MacFlecknoe, etc.; in theology, Religio Laici, Hind and Panther, etc.; in drama, some thirty plays; in translation, his Virgil; and in lyric poetry, his magnificent Ode for St. Cecilia's Day. D. had great genius, not always worthily employed. His dramas, when not stilted, are licentious, and as a satirist he is bitter, personal, and coarse. _See Masson's Essays, and Lowell's Among My Books; also, Dryden, by Saintsbury, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Hou. Har. Rou._ =Dugdale, Sir Wm.= 1605-1685. Antiquary. Author Antiquities of Warwickshire, and other valuable antiquarian works. =Dunbar, Wm.= 1465-1530. Scotch poet. D. wrote The Thistle and Rose, The Golden Terge, etc. His witty, striking, and original genius is closely akin to that of Burns. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ =D'Urfey, Thos.= 1650-1723. Dramatist. Witty, but coarse and immoral. =Dutt, Toru.= 1856-1877. Hindu poetess. A writer of much genius. Ballads of Hindustan, and Sheafs Gleaned from French Fields, a vol. of fine Eng. translations, are her chief works. _See Lit. World, June 17, 1882._ =Dyce, Alexander.= 1798-1869. Scotch Shakespearean scholar of note. _See his edition of Shakespeare, with Glossary, 1867._ =Dyer, George.= 1755-1841. Author Hist. University of Cambridge, etc.