Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry EPUB
by John Dryden
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pubOne.info present you this new edition. Dryden's discourses upon Satire and Epic Poetry belong to the latter years of his life, and represent maturer thought than is to be found in his "Essay of Dramatic Poesie. " That essay, published in 1667, draws its chief interest from the time when it was written.
A Dutch fleet was at the mouth of the Thames. Dryden represents himself taking a boat down the river with three friends, one of them his brother-in-law Sir Robert Howard, another Sir Charles Sedley, and another Charles Sackville Lord Buckhurst to whom, as Earl of Dorset, the "Discourse of Satire" is inscribed.
They go down the river to hear the guns at sea, and judge by the sound whether the Dutch fleet be advancing or retreating.
On the way they talk of the plague of Odes that will follow an English victory; their talk of verse proceeds to plays, with particular attention to a question that had been specially argued before the public between Dryden and his brother-in-law Sir Robert Howard.
The question touched the use of blank verse in the drama.
Dryden had decided against it as a worthless measure, and the chief feature of the Essay, which was written in dialogue, was its support of Dryden's argument
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- ISBN:9782819941941