Vol. 1 (of 4) 91/219 And what have you chosen? You know there is a law which permits any modern poet to retouch a play of Aeschylus, and bring it forward as his own composition. And, as there is an absurd prejudice, among the vulgar, in favour of his extravagant pieces, I have selected one of them, and altered it. Oh! that mass of barbarous absurdities, the Prometheus. |