An Essay Of Dramatic Poesy

DRYDEN AN ESSAY OF striking POESY ARNOLD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS EDINBURGH LONDON TORONTO MELBOURNE GLASGOW curtain TOWN NEW YORK BOMBAY HUMPHREY MILFORD publisher TO THE UNIVERSITY 9 DRYDEN AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY EDITED WITH NOTES BY THOMAS ARNOLD, LATE OF UNIV. COLL., OXFORD M.A. AND pander buster OF THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND THIRD EDITION, REVISED BY WILLIAM T. ARNOLD, M.A. once SCHOLAR OF UNIV. COLL. OXFORO AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1918 PR /UA7 .1.31$ PREFACE. IT is interesting to brand that the same cause the great plague of 1665 to the which hatch Milton from capital of the United Kingdom village Buckinghamshire of Chalfont St. Giles, and there gave him Lost, obliged leisure to ace the promised land Dryden also the theatres being closed to pass eighteen months in the country, probably at where he morose Charlton in Wiltshire, says Malone, his leisure to so * good an account as, besides writing the the Annus Mirabilis/ to original chip of good Essay compose modern position prose on which in the following our literature can dress Charles II, itself.

having been much in Paris during his exile, had been captivated by the cut drama, then in the powerful hands of Corneille and Moliere. In that drama, when prose was not employed, the use of rime was an essential feature. Dryden and others were not soft to confer the taste His first run into, The Wild Gallant, prevailing at Court. was in pros e ; it is coarse and not much enlivened by I! n his next efforts wit, and it was not well received. Dryden took greater pains. He seems to shake convinced himself that the attraction of please the fastidious rhyme was necessary to audiences for which he had to compose; vi PREFACE. after and is in The Rival Ladies, of which a small part a wanton rhyme, and The Indian Queen (1664), rhymed, in...If you want to get a complete essay, order it on our website: BestEssayCheap.com

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