An Essay Of Dramatic Poesy

DRYDEN AN ESSAY OF melodramatic POESY ARNOLD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS EDINBURGH LONDON TORONTO MELBOURNE GLASGOW cape 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 mess up buster OF THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND THIRD EDITION, REVISED BY WILLIAM T. ARNOLD, M.A. erst SCHOLAR OF UNIV. COLL. OXFORO AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1918 PR /UA7 .1.31$ PREFACE. IT is interesting to nock 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 do the heaven Dryden also the theatres being closed to pass eighteen months in the country, probably at where he morose Charlton in Wiltshire, says Malone, his l eisure to so * good an account as, besides writing the the Annus Mirabilis/ to primary chip of good Essay compose modern slope prose on which in the following our literature can hook Charles II, itself.

having been much in Paris during his exile, had been captivated by the French drama, then in the powerful hands of Corneille and Moliere. In that drama, when prose was not employed, the use of rhyme was an essential feature. Dryden and others were not soft to bear on the taste His first run into, The Wild Gallant, prevailing at Court. was in prose ; it is coarse and not much enl ivened by In his next efforts wit, and it wa! s 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 persist 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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