person
also known as Dryden
The English poet and essayist who, in Bob's dialogue 24 genre-history, rediscovered the satiric tradition through Varro and gave it a name. Recognizing it as "a different satire from Horace or Juvenal" — whose targets were public figures and human foibles — Dryden called it "Varronian." The label held for a couple of centuries until Bakhtin retrieved the older name and the form became Menippean satire again.
Across the dialogues
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Enters as the namer — the English poet who, rediscovering the form through Varro, calls it "Varronian" and sets it apart from Horace and Juvenal
Dryden is the taxonomist — distinguishing the Varronian strain from the public-figure satire of Horace and Juvenal, he named it and fixed it as its own tradition until Bakhtin renamed it.
"He discovered Varro, recognized it was a different satire from Horace or Juvenal."
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namesMenippean Satire
Dryden coined "Varronian satire," the label that held until Bakhtin restored "Menippean."