Editing Dryad (section)

== In popular culture ==
[[File:Augustins - La dernière dryade - Gabriel Guay (2004 1 169).jpg|thumb|''La dernière dryade (The Last Dryad)'' by [[Gabriel Guay]], 1898.]]
* [[John Keats|Keats]] addresses the nightingale as "light-winged Dryad of the trees", in his "[[Ode to a Nightingale]]" . 
* In the [[poetry]] of [[Donald Davidson (poet)|Donald Davidson]] they illustrate the [[Theme (literature)|theme]]s of [[tradition]] and the importance of the past to the present.<ref>{{Cite journal|jstor=20077624|title=Dryads and Flappers|author=Martha E. Cook|volume=12|year=1979|pages=18–26|journal=The Southern Literary Journal|issue=1|publisher=University of North Carolina Press}}</ref>
*In [[The Chronicles of Narnia]] by [[C. S. Lewis]], dryads appear as inhabitants of [[Narnia (world)|Narnia]], as do many creatures from Greek mythology.<ref>Niedbala (2006) p.87</ref> In [[Prince Caspian]] the activity of the [[Telmarines]] in felling trees and defiling streams forces the dryads and naiads – denizens of 'Old Narnia' – into a deep sleep, from which they awaken when [[Bacchus]] and [[Silenus]] are summoned by [[Aslan]] to aid in the fight against King [[Miraz]]'s army.<ref>Sellars (2008) pp.37–38.</ref>