[9] John Dennis, _Critical Works_ (ed. Edward N. Hooker), Baltimore (1939-43), I, 30-35. For a succinct account of the English controversy about the chorus see _ibid._, I, 437-438. Though Dennis did not agree with Dacier on this point, he admired him. As late as 1726, in the preface to _The Stage Defended_, he quoted Dacier's preface and spoke of him as "that most judicious Critick." _Ibid._, II, 309. [10] John Dryden, _Letters_ (ed. C.E. Ward), Duke University Press, 1942, pp. 71-72. Hooker has noticed the similarity of two of Dennis's opinions to views expressed by Dryden in his then unpublished "Heads of an Answer" to Rymer's _Tragedies of the Last Age_, 1678. [11] W.P. Ker, _Essays of John Dryden_, Oxford, 1926, II, 136. [12] Ker, II, 144. Cf. Dennis's similar remark in _The Impartial Critick_, Hooker, I, 31. Racine, in his preface to _Esther_, said nothing doctrinaire about the use of the chorus. He merely mentioned that it had occurred to him to introduce the chorus in order to imitate the ancients and to sing the praises of the true God. [13] J.E. Spingarn, _Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century_, Oxford, 1908-09, III, 227 and 240. [14] _Treatise of the Epick Poem_, London, 1695, _sig._ [A 3] _verso_- A 4, _recto_. [15] Jeremy Collier, "A Defence of the Short View.... Being a Reply to Mr. Congreve's Amendments," _A Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage_, etc., London, 1738, p. 251. [16] _Traité du Poëme Epique_, I, ch. vi and vii. ARISTOTLE'S ART OF POETRY. Translated from the Original _Greek_, according to Mr. _Theodore Goulston_'s Edition. TOGETHER, With Mr. _D'ACIER_'s Notes Translated from the _French_. ----_Vero nomine poena Non Honor est._---- Ovid Metam. _lib._ 2. _LONDON_: Printed for _Dan. Browne_ at the _Blalk Swan_ without _Temple Bar_, and _Will. Turner_ at the _Angel_ at _Lincolns-Inn_ Back Gate, 1705. THE PREFACE