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.

• 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

Ancients vs. Moderns

Ancients Moderns

John Dryden

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

~ Dr. Samuel Johnson

• Sãkshãt (NME ICT) Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar

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

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

• Dryden Dramatic Poesy - WikiEducator.htm

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/>.

Thanks a lot!

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