The Ancient & Modern Controversy Cases for Ancient- Crites

Name: Riddhi S. Jani

Roll No: 28

Paper: 3, Literary Theory & Criticism

Semester: 1st

Submitted To: English Department,

M.K.Bhavnagar University

Introduction

• About Dryden and his Essay

Controversy

• Ancient and Modern controversy.• It reminds us

“The Battle of the Books” by Swift.

Cases for Ancient

• Ancients gave base to Moderns.

• Their greatness in drama and poetry.

• Healthy competition between ancient writers.

• Strong and impartial criticism.• In modern time, the qualities of writers

remain hidden.• Ancients were best as well as full of

morality.

• Ancients closely observed nature and put her with her whole beauty.

• While moderns distort nature.

• Ancients gave rules for dramatic composition.• Moderns take help of these rules.• Ancients strictly followed three unities.• “Three unities of time, place and action ought to

be observed in every regular play.”- Crites • Moderns disturb those unities.• The last thing: Ancients gave well structured

works. We cannot appreciate them in totality because their language is dead.

• It is fact that they were higher than Moderns in many ways.

Thank You