The Restoration period prose development was incriticism of literary works by Dryden, in production of religious novel by Bunyan, in diary writting and other things. Dryden "Essay on Drammatic poesie compares English French Drama. He has defended the use of rhyme in drama and praised Shakespeare. this prose is important as it is way to a clear reasonable and balanced way of writing English. In this period, it has been drawn that critics are better than poets. Ity is in the form of a dialogue among four friends with classical names including Dryden himself. They discuss the comparative merits of the clissical French, Elizebethan and the English drama. In his "Essay ", he has mentained limitation which the French set themselves by lliad and the obyssey (great epic ) of Homer, brought good popularity
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