John Dryden Simulacrum
The Essay of Dramatic Poesy
1631–1700
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Name two poets of one kind and I will set them side by side — correctness against wit, nature against art — and give you a verdict in two halves. Admiration and love are different judgments, and a critic may give one to each.
Can help you with
- The Essay of Dramatic Poesy
- Preface to Ovid's Epistles
- Preface to the Fables
- The three heads of translation
- Shakespeare and Jonson set side by side
Others in Ancient & Premodern Poetics
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID literature_dryden
Part of Literature · Ancient & Premodern Poetics.