Dryden on Horace and Juvenal

Since Dryden's Discourse Concerning The Original And Progress Of Satire is still widely read and provides for many students ofEnglish literature what is probably their only source of information about Horace and Juvenal, it seems worth while to examine its content in the light of present-day scholarship. We shall not be concerned with Dryden's remarks on the pre-literary history of satura, nor shall we attempt to add anything to his critique of Casaubon's partiality towards Persius. Our object will be simply to review his comparison of the two major satirists of antiquity.