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en-wikipedia-org-661		Mac Flecknoe - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	883	101	69	Mac Flecknoe (full title: Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blue-Protestant Poet, T.S.[1]) is a verse mock-heroic satire written by John Dryden. Bust of Mac Flecknoe from an 18th century edition of Dryden's poems Written about 1678, but not published until 1682 (see 1682 in poetry), "Mac Flecknoe" is the outcome of a series of disagreements between Thomas Shadwell and Dryden. The poem illustrates Shadwell as the heir to a kingdom of poetic dullness, represented by his association with Richard Flecknoe, an earlier poet already satirized by Andrew Marvell and disliked by Dryden, although the poet does not use belittling techniques to satirize him. Dryden uses the mock-heroic through his use of the heightened language of the epic to treat the trivial subjects such as poorly written and largely dismissible poetry. Dryden and Shadwell, The Literary Controversy and 'Mac Flecknoe' (1668–1679) Dryden and Shadwell, The Literary Controversy and 'Mac Flecknoe' (1668–1679) 	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-661.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-661.txt