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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Palamon and Arcite, by John Dryden #3 in our series by John DrydenCopyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloadingor redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do notchange or edit the header without written permission.Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of thisfile. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can alsofind out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts****eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971*******These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****Title: Palamon and ArciteAuthor: John DrydenRelease Date: February, 2005 [EBook #7490] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was firstposted on May 10, 2003]Edition: 10Language: English*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PALAMON AND ARCITE ***Produced by Ted Garvin, Charles Franks & the Distributed Proofreaders TeamDRYDEN'S PALAMON AND ARCITEEDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES GEORGE E. ELIOT, A.M. ENGLISH MASTER IN THE MORGANSCHOOLTO HENRY A. BEERS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH ...
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**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****
Title: Palamon and Arcite Author: John Dryden Release Date: February, 2005 [EBook #7490] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on May 10, 2003] Edition: 10 Language: English
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PALAMON AND ARCITE ***
Produced by Ted Garvin, Charles Franks & the Distributed Proofreaders Team
G. E. E. CLINTON, CONN., July 26, 1897. INTRODUCTION. THEBACKGROUND.
DRYDEN'S PALAMON AND ARCITE
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED PREFACE. To edit an English classic for study in secondary schools is difficult. The lack of anything like uniformity in the type of examination required by the colleges and universities complicates treatment. Not only do two distinct institutions differ in the scope and character of their questions, but the same university varies its demands from year to year. The only safe course to pursue is, therefore, a generally comprehensive one. But here, again, we are hampered by limited space, and are forced to content ourselves with a bare outline, which the individual instructor can fill in as much or as little as he pleases. The ignorance of most of our classical students in regard to the history of English literature is appalling; and yet it is impossible properly to study a given work of a given author without some knowledge of the background against which that particular writer stands. I have, therefore, sketched the politics, society, and literature of the age in which Dryden lived, and during which he gave to the world hisPalamon and Arcite. In the critical comments of the introduction I have contented myself with little more than hints. That particular line of study, whether it concerns the poet's style, his verse forms, or the possession of the divine instinct itself, can be much more satisfactorily developed by the instructor, as the student's knowledge of the poem grows. It is certainly a subject for congratulation that so many youth will be introduced, through the medium of Dryden's crisp and vigorous verse, to one of the tales of Chaucer. May it now, as in his own century, accomplish the poet's desire, and awaken in them appreciative admiration for the old bard, the best story-teller in the English language.
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