(Richard), an English poet in the reign of Charles II. more remarkable for Mr Dryden's satire on him than for any works of his own. He is said to have been originally a Jesuit, and to have had good English connections in the Catholic interest. When Dryden lost the place of poet-laureate on the revolution, its being conferred on Flecknoe, for whom he had a settled aversion, gave occasion to his poem intitled Mac Flecknoe; one of the best written satires in our language, and from which Pope seems to have taken the hint for his Dunciad. Flecknoe wrote some plays; but could never get more than one of them acted, and that was damned.