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Eugenius’s Arguments in Favour of the Moderns - ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ by John Dryden Prepared and Presented by Parth Bhatt Roll No. III, Sem. III, Literary Theory and Criticism, Dept. of English, MKS BU.

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Eugenius’s Arguments in Favour of the Moderns - ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ by

John Dryden

Prepared and Presented by

Parth Bhatt

Roll No. III, Sem. III, Literary Theory and Criticism, Dept. of English, MKS BU.

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• The Theatre• A brief discussion on Neo-classical theory of

Literature• The Classical Drama is an imitation of life and

reflects human nature clearly• Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius and Neander

(Dryden)

An Essay on Dramatic Poesy: An Introduction

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Ancients vs. Moderns

Ancients Moderns

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John Dryden

• “…refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry.”

~ Dr. Samuel Johnson

• Sãkshãt (NME ICT) Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar

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An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

• Dryden's “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1667) is classic discussion of the relative merits of the ancient Greek and Latin drama, the contemporary French neo-classical drama, the English drama of the age of Shakespeare and Jonson, and his own experiments in the serious heroic drama in rhyming verse

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Eugenius’s Argues on the Superiority of the Moderns over the Ancients:

• Dryden Dramatic Poesy - WikiEducator.htm

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Works Cited

• Barad, Dilip, and Sanjay Mukherjee. "Dryden Dramatic Poesy." - WikiEducator. Dilipbarad.com, n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2012. <http://wikieducator.org/Dryden_Dramatic_Poesy>.

• Barad, Dilip, Dr. "Unit 2: 2.5 Dryden - Rhyme vs Verse(final).avi." YouTube. YouTube, 22 June 2012. Web. 19 Oct. 2012.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAf3vQn83rc>.

• Barad, Dilip, Dr. “NME ICT Sãkshãt" Dilipbarad.com's

Project. Ed. Sanjay Mukherjee, Dr. MHRD, n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2012. <http://www.dilipbarad.com/sakshat/>.

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Thanks a lot!

• This presentation is submitted to Dept. of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University