Of Dramatick Poesie
Of Dramatick Poesie

Author: John Dryden

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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A facsimile edition of Dryden's famous essay preceded by a dialogue on poetic drama by T. S. Eliot. This is a very rare work.

Essay of Dramatick Poesie
Essay of Dramatick Poesie

Author: John Dryden

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1425011276

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If your quarrel (said Eugenius) to those who now write, be grounded onely upon your reverence to Antiquity, there is no man more ready to adore those great Greeks and Romans than I am: but on the other side, I cannot think so contemptibly of the Age I live in, or so dishonourably of my own Countrey, as not to judge we equal the Ancients in most kinds of Poesie.

The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVII
The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVII

Author: John Dryden

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1972-01-01

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 0520905199

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This collection of prose writing from the pen of Dryden dates from 1668 to 1691, and contains work that the editors describe as "a sampler of Dryden as biographer-historian, political commentator, religious controversialist, literary polemicist, literary theorist, and practical critic. Among the works contained here is his "Essay of Dramatick Poesie."