Ancients vs. Moderns.

1. 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.

2. An Essay on Dramatic Poesy: An
Introduction
• 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)

3. Ancients vs. Moderns
Ancients Moderns

4. John Dryden
• “…refined the language, improved
the sentiments, and tuned the
numbers of English poetry.”
~ Dr. Samuel Johnson
• Sãkshãt (NME ICT) Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar

5. 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

6. Eugenius‟s Argues on the Superiority
of the Moderns over the Ancients:
• Dryden Dramatic Poesy - WikiEducator.htm

7. 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/>.

8. Thanks a lot!
• This presentation is
submitted to Dept. of
English, Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University