Discourses on Satire and on Epic PoetryDryden, John
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Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry
Dryden, John
Epic poetry; Satire; Satire -- History and criticism
myself by articles to do somewhat of that kind. These scattering
observations are rather guesses at my author’s meaning in some passages
than proofs that so he meant. The unlearned may have recourse to any
poetical dictionary in English for the names of persons, places, or
fables, which the learned need not, but that little which I say is either
new or necessary, and the first of these qualifications never fails to
invite a reader, if not to please him.
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