2011- 1- 21
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#3707
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أكـاديـمـي ألـمـاسـي
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رد: Third Year's Students Come Here To Be One Hand
John Dryden was a dramatist, a poet and a critic. He is considered the founder of the prose style because he wrote many prose articles. He wrote criticism. He wrote about literature about the rules of writing poetic drama.
His most interesting critical work is his *An Essay on Dramatic Poesy*
In the first part of his essay, he gives us his aim why he intended to writer about dramatic poetry.
He said that his aim in writing this essay was to vindicate= defend by arguing, giving reason= justifying. His aim is to vindicate the honor of the English writers.
He gives reasons. By giving reasons he is justifying, defending his ideas. By justifying he is setting the rules. He had wider aim that is to give us the, principles rules that guide the writers, how would writers write their work of art.
He was defending against certain attack, certain accusation.
When he found that literature was tackled at his time, he started defending it. The kind of poetry that was tackled was dramatic poetry= poetry that is used in drama- many of his ideas he is tackling are based on Aristotle.
Because he was man of letters, the way he wrote this essay is very artistic. He wrote it in an artistic form. He borrowed this form from the classics. The whole essay is written in the form of argument. He imagines that there were four friends. They were going on as trip in as a boat in the Thames- an English river. The boat is something symbolic; A symbol of life. He was imaging that those friends were on the boat in the river. They are all arguing about certain point- poetry. Through the four friends we are given four different points of views. At that time there was an event= a battle between the English and the Dutch. He used this occasion to imagine that there were four friends and that they were trying to move from one place to another. They took a small boat. They were sailing in the Thames= an English river. While they were sitting in the boat, they were talking about many things. One of them mentions poetry. The four of them had different views. One of them is giving us the classical point of view, he prefers the classical writers and he says why. The other says that the French is better and he says why. The third says that the modern English drama is better and he says why. The fourth represents Dryden himself. He tells us his point of view.
هذا اخذته من ملازم نجلاء مدري بس اتوقع يفيد لباقراوند لدرايدن
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