By Herbert F. Tucker
This ebook is the 1st to supply a attached background of epic poetry in Britain among the French Revolution and the 1st global warfare. even if epic is largely held to were shouldered apart by way of the radical, if no longer invalidated upfront through modernity, in truth the style used to be practiced with out interruption around the lengthy 19th century by means of approximately each admired Romantic and Victorian poet, and shoals of bold poetasters into the cut price. Poets saved the epic alive by way of revising its conventions to fulfill an overlapping sequence of adjusting realities: rebel democracy, Napoleonic warfare, the increase of sophistication realization and repeated reform of the franchise, demanding situations posed by way of medical increase to spiritual trust and loved notions of the human, the evolution of a postnationalist and finally imperialist identification for Britain because the world's superpower. each one of those advancements known as on nineteenth-century epic to do what the style had continually performed: confirm the harmony of its sponsoring tradition via a wide utterance that either stated the specific flowering of the fashionable and affirmed its rootedness in culture. the easiest writers replied this name via figuring Britain's self-renewal and the genre's as types of each other. In passing Herbert Tucker notices rankings of mediocre congeners (and worse), with the intention to exhibit the place the problem of a given decade fell and recommend what lay at stake. The heritage those lesser works offer throws into reduction what the ebook stresses in prolonged discussions of a number of dozen significant works: an unbroken background of bold experimentation during which circumspect, artistic, apprehensive epoists engaged as the style and the age alike demanded it.
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Vol. 7 (London: Methuen, 1967). The ‘‘Essay’’ on Homeric contexts was contributed by Pope’s friend Thomas Parnell. A linchpin between the two essays may be found in the following passage, though it is only an aside, from Pope’s (14): ‘‘When we read Homer, we ought to reXect that we are reading the most ancient Author in the Heathen World; and those who consider him in this Light, will double their Pleasure in the Perusal of him. ’’ 48 See the discussion of the 1716 Querelle and its unstable resolution in Douglas Lane Patey, ‘‘Ancients and Moderns,’’ in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol.
Needham (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995) 199–214. the very idea: epic in the head 37 permanent; furthermore, like other eclipses it involved the conjunction of bodies almost identically shaped. What darkened the face of biblical narrative in the eighteenth century was the transit of its isomorphic secular twin, progressivism—alias the march of intellect, alias cultural evolution, alias the Whig interpretation of history, alias Western Civ: the plan with a thousand faces.
44 The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. , vol. 9 (London: Methuen, 1967) 3. For Le Bossu’s text in Wrst English translation, see Le Bossu and Voltaire on the Epic, ed. Stuart Curran (Gainesville: Scholars, 1970), which provides a lively brief introduction. 32 the very idea: epic in the head for stability, clarity, and rule. Le Bossu actually introduces his insistence on unity by explaining that what had ‘‘oblig’d’’ the ancient masters to cleave to it was the risk of attention-dispersal that lurked within polytheism even in their day.