John Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
The work An Essay of Dramatic Poesy of John Dryden is rightfully ranked as one of the great works that contributed to literary criticism in the emergence of English literature. Influenced by events of the Restoration period, Dryden tries to answers the questions that were dominant regarding the drama and poetry curtains of the period. This essay does disease English drama alone; rather it provides a comprehensive analysis that is useful for both the critics and scholars even in the present time. Background on John Dryden John Dryden is one of the most celebrated English critics, being one of England’s foremost writers in the 17th century. His literary output has been dominantly cosmos since it includes poems, plays, and prose. What makes him remarkable in the area of literary critique is an extraordinary essay called An Essay of Dramatic Poesy written and published back in 1668. The paper comes out in appreciation of the arguments in the war between critics and practitioners of c...