Dryad - Other Works

Other Works

Dryads are mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost, in Coleridge, and in Thackeray's work The Virginians. Keats addresses the nightingale as "light-winged Dryad of the trees", in his Ode to a Nightingale. In the poetry of Donald Davidson they illustrate the themes of tradition and the importance of the past to the present. The poet Sylvia Plath uses them to symbolize nature in her poetry in "On the Difficulty of Conjuring up a Dryad", and "On the Plethora of Dryads".

In the ballet Don Quixote, dryads appear in a vision with Dulcinea before Don Quixote. They also appear in the classical ballet Sylvia.

Dryads are also featured extensively throughout The Chronicles of Narnia by British author C.S. Lewis and are shown to fight alongside Aslan, son of the Emperor-Over-The-Sea, and the Pevensie Children.

In Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition Dryads appear in the first monster manual on page 96. They are native to the fey wilds.

The same characters recur in David Eddings' The Belgariad, where dryads live in seclusion in the Wood of the Dryads within the Tolnedran Empire, and among the most prominent in the storyline is Ce'Nedra.

In the animated show Monster School, the character Rose Greendae is a dryad who can turn into a tree at will.

In the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan, there is a dryad named Juniper who is the girlfriend of Grover Underwood.

In the series Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling, there are a species of insect-eating magical animal known as bowtruckles. Bowtruckles are very similar to Dryads, as they're considered to be guardians of wand trees.

In the television series The Troop there's an episode which contains a dryad. Jake has a relationship whit an dryad named Laurel, as seen in Forest Grump. She ownes a little forest nearly to school.