John Drydens poetry is in marked contrast to the exuberance, wit and passion of the Metaphysical poets a generation earlier. Dryden had lived through the turbulent years of the English Civil War, and his balanced prosody reflects a longing to return to an ordered society. His clarity of language, his balance of phrase and his cultivation of the heroic couplet influenced many of the poets who followed him.

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