Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold - Matthew Arnold

[98] From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 1688.

[99] A statement to this effect is made by Dryden in the Preface to the Fables.

[100] From Preface to the Fables.

[101] See Wordsworth's Essay, Supplementary to the Preface, 1815, and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.

[102] An Apology for Smectymnuus, Prose Works, ed. 1843, III, 117-18. Milton was thirty-four years old at this time.

[103] The opening words of Dryden's Postscript to the Reader in the translation of Virgil, 1697.

[104] The opening lines of The Hind and the Panther.