Excerpt from Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice

Dryden took up unwillingly the new fashion of writing. Llis own unfitness for it he recognized. There is a certain pathos in his confession of this, combined with the expression of the critic's fine scorn for the public to which he stooped.

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