[1] Willard H. Durham, ed., _Critical Essays of the Eighteenth Century_,
New Haven, 1915, pp. 62-72.
[2] _Tatler_ 165.
[3] _Spectator_ 592.
[4] For Dacier in England see A.F.B. Clark, _Boileau and the French
Classical Critics in England (1660-1830)_, Paris, 1925, pp. 286-288. As
late as 1895, S.H. Butcher, in _Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine
Art_, mentioned Dacier frequently, if only to disagree with him as often
as he mentioned him.
[5] Thomas Rymer, _Critical Works_ (ed. C.A. Zimansky), New Haven, 1956,
p. 83.
[6] This view, announced in the Preface, was elaborately argued by
Dacier in Remarque 27, Ch. XIX.
[7] Rymer, _op. cit._, p. 84. Zimansky, in his introduction and notes,
discusses the influence of Dacier on Rymer and other English critics.
[8] _Ibid._ p. 84 and pp. 80-93.
[9] John Dennis, _Critical Works_ (ed. Edward N. Hooker), Baltimore
(1939-43), I, 30-35. For a succinct account of the English controversy
about the chorus see _ibid._, I, 437-438. Though Dennis did not agree
with Dacier on this point, he admired him. As late as 1726, in the
preface to _The Stage Defended_, he quoted Dacier's preface and spoke of
him as "that most judicious Critick." _Ibid._, II, 309.
[10] John Dryden, _Letters_ (ed. C.E. Ward), Duke University Press,
1942, pp. 71-72. Hooker has noticed the similarity of two of Dennis's
opinions to views expressed by Dryden in his then unpublished "Heads of
an Answer" to Rymer's _Tragedies of the Last Age_, 1678.
[11] W.P. Ker, _Essays of John Dryden_, Oxford, 1926, II, 136.
[12] Ker, II, 144. Cf. Dennis's similar remark in _The Impartial
Critick_, Hooker, I, 31. Racine, in his preface to _Esther_, said
nothing doctrinaire about the use of the chorus. He merely mentioned
that it had occurred to him to introduce the chorus in order to imitate
the ancients and to sing the praises of the true God.
[13] J.E. Spingarn, _Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century_,
Oxford, 1908-09, III, 227 and 240.
[14] _Treatise of the Epick Poem_, London, 1695, _sig._ [A 3] _verso_- A
4, _recto_.
[15] Jeremy Collier, "A Defence of the Short View.... Being a Reply to
Mr. Congreve's Amendments," _A Short View of the Profaneness and
Immorality of the English Stage_, etc., London, 1738, p. 251.
[16] _Traite du Poeme Epique_, I, ch. vi and vii.