POETRY***


Transcribed from the 1888 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

                       CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY.

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                           DISCOURSES ON SATIRE
                                  AND ON
                               EPIC POETRY.


                                    BY
                               JOHN DRYDEN.

                      [Picture: Decorative graphic]

                       CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:
                _LONDON_, _PARIS_, _NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_.
                                  1888.




INTRODUCTION.


DRYDEN’S discourses upon Satire and Epic Poetry belong to the latter
years of his life, and represent maturer thought than is to be found in
his “Essay of Dramatic Poesie.”  That essay, published in 1667, draws its
chief interest from the time when it was written.  A Dutch fleet was at
the mouth of the Thames.  Dryden represents himself taking a boat do