Mac Flecknoe

Read John Dryden's "Essay of Dramatic Poesie" at the following link:

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet.html

Answer the prompt in your journals. However, because you enjoy sharing your opinion of the literature we read, post your emotional responses here . . .

According to the satirical point of view conveyed in this poem and in Dryden's "Essay of Dramatic Poesy," what makes poetry bad? What are the key characteristics of bad literary art?