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Excerpt from Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece, Vol. 4 All literature ranges itself under the two general heads or departments of Poetry and Prose. Each of these departments comprises various orders or styles of composition, standing in a certain relation or ana logy to parallel orders in the other department. Poetry comprises the Epic, Lyric, Didactic, and Dramatic orders of composition. In Prose literature, History stands in the relation above noticed to Epic poetry; Oratory to Lyric poetry; the Dialogue to the Drama. The title Didactic, or Instructive, is common, in each department, to the branches of literature the nature and object of which it more immediately denotes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.