jan 1, 1671 - John Dryden published his preface to "An Evening's Love"

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“But I confess I have given too much to the people in it (previous playwrighting), and am ashamed for them as well as for myself, that I have pleased them at so cheap a rate”
- taste is not good - he is admitting that he has written literature that will please the public but not that is not good

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