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INTRODUCTION.

The story of the following Tragedy is fictitious; the event may, without impropriety, be supposed to have happened on the coast of Ireland, which the Northern nations were accustomed to plunder before its conversion to Christianity. The Greek form of dramatic writing has been adopted, as affording in its chorus the most favourable opportunity for the display of mythological imagery. Rime has not been used in the odes, both because it was less conformable to the model imitated, and because it appeared unnecessary, if not prejudicial in this species of poetry.

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