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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 choruses the most favourable opportunity for the display of mythological imagery. Rhyme has not been used in the choral odes, both because it was less comformable to the model imitated, and because it appeared unnecessary, if not prejudicial in this species of poetry.
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