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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 491 — Chapter IV · DRYDEN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

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This attempt to get Epic as close as possible to Drama—to work all the kinds of Imitation back into one arch-kind—appears more or less fitfully in the whole Neo-Classic school. And we shall never quite understand the much discussed “Heroic Play,” till we take it in conjunction with the “Heroic Poem.”

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