論戲劇詩(shī) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

1、An Essay of Dramatic Poesy JohnDryden(1631-1700) I1.English country gentrys family2.poet,playwrigt ,critic3.1959,wrote an elegy on Cromwells death,came to notice4.Poet Laureate WorksThe Hind and the Panther牝鹿與豹(1687)An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 論戲劇詩(shī)(1668)All for Love為了愛(ài)情(1678)Absalom and Achitophel押沙龍

2、與亞希多弗 (1682-1682) Influence on Literature Dryden is the “l(fā)ock by which the waters of English poetry were let down from the mountains of Shakespeare and Milton to the plain of Pope.” His satire exerted a fruitful influence on the most brilliant verse satirists of the next century. An Essay of Dramati

3、c Poesy by John Dryden ,a well-known poet and essayist in the 17th and 18th century, is structured as a dialogue among four gentlemen on the river Thames whose names are Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius and Neander. They are all pseudonyms for actual Restoration critics, Sir William Davenant ,Sir Robert

4、Howard,The earl of Orrery and the last for Dryden himself. Eugenius Eugenius favours modern English dramatists by attacking the classical playwrights, who did not themselves always observe the unity of place. Crites Crites defends the ancients and points out that they invited the principles of drama

5、tic art paved by Aristotle . Crites opposes rhyme in plays and argues that though the moderns excel in sciences, the ancient age was the true age of poetry. Lisideius Lisideius holds the French drama is superior to English drama for the reason that the French writers follow the rules of the classical separation of comedy and tragedy and English writers,such as Ben Jonson. Neander Neander speaks in favour of the Moderns and respects the Ancients .He also favors English drama and has a critical eye on Frenc