RICHARD FLECKNOE BIOGRAPHY
RICHARD FLECKNOE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
FLECKNOE, RICHARD ( d. 1678). —Poet, said to have been an Irish priest. He wrote several plays, now forgotten, also miscellaneous poems, some of them sacred, and a book of travels. His name has been preserved in Dryden's satire, MacFlecknoe , as "throughout the realms of nonsense absolute;" but according to some authorities his slighter pieces were not wanting in grace and fancy.