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Something Like Horace : Studies in the Art title: and Allusion of Pope's Horatian Satires author: Aden, John M. publisher: Vanderbilt University Press isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: 9780826511386 ebook isbn13: 9780585103426 language: English Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744.--Imitations of Horace, Verse satire, Latin--History and criticism--Adaptations, Verse satire, subject English--Roman influences, Horace-- Parodies, imitations, etc, Imitation in literature, Horace--Influence. publication date: 1969 lcc: PR3636.A3 1969eb ddc: 821/.5 Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744.--Imitations of Horace, Verse satire, Latin--History and criticism--Adaptations, Verse satire, subject: English--Roman influences, Horace-- Parodies, imitations, etc, Imitation in literature, Horace--Influence. Page iii Something Like Horace Studies in the Art and Allusion of Pope's Horatian Satires John M. Aden VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS · 1969 Page iv Copyright © 1962, 1967, 1969 John M. Aden Standard Book Number 826511384 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 7183208 Printed in the United States of America by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee Page v To MARIE in lieu of many ornaments Page vii Abbreviations Sources Frequently Referred to in the Notes William Lisle Bowles, ed., The Works of Alexander Bowles Pope, Esq., 10 vols. London, 1806. Butt John Butt, ed., Imitations of Horace, Vol. IV in The Twickenham Edition of The Poems of Alexander Pope. London: Methuen, 1939- Corr. The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. George Sherburn, 5 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1956. E-C The Works of Alexander Pope, ed. the Rev. Whitwell Elwin and W. J. Courthope, io vols. London, 1871- 1889. GriffithReginald H. Griffith, Alexander Pope: A Bibliography, 2 vols. London: Holland Press, 1962. HerveyLord Hervey's Memoirs, ed. Romney Sedgwick. London: William Kimber, 1952. HoraceHorace. Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica (The Loeb Classical Library), ed. H. Rushton Fairclough. London, 1955. Rogers Robert W. Rogers, The Major Satires of Alexander Pope (Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. XL). Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1955. SpenceJoseph Spence, Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men, ed. James M. Osborn, 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1966. WartonJoseph Warton, ed., The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., 9 vols. London, 1797. Page ix Contents Abbreviations vii Preface xi 1 The Satiric Adversary 3 Satire II. i; Epistle to Arbuthnot; Epilogue to the Satires 2 The Satiric Prolocutor 27 Satire II. ii (Bethel) 3 Sober Advice from Horace 47 Satire I. ii 4 Plain Truth, dear Murray 69 Epistle I. vi 5 In the Manner of Dr. Swift 85 Satire II. vi; Epistle I. vii 6 Epilogue: Receit to Make a Satire 107 Index 121 Page xi Preface Only in the last decade, or slightly better, have the Horatian imitations emerged from the neglect and disrepute of very nearly their whole history. Doubly damned in the romantic rejection of Pope and satire alikeitself a heritage of the Wartonian verdict and the triumph of sublimitythe imitations have, with meagre exception, languished in all but Cimmerian gloom until the middle of our own century. In 1939 the Twickenham edition afforded a basis for restudy and re- evaluation, but it was not until the mid-fifties that much came of it. At that time Robert W. Rogers, in an epochal study of The Major Satires of Alexander Pope, vindicated the reputation of these forgotten poems. Since then they have enjoyed steadily mounting notice in journals and Festschriften by such scholars as R. E. Hughes, G. K. Hunter, and Aubrey Williams. Meanwhile, passing notice of them has intensified in books about Pope's poetry as a whole, most recently by such authors as G. Wilson Knight, Reuben Brower, and Thomas R. Edwards Jr. But it was not until 1966 that a book-length study of the imitations at last made an appearance, Thom Maresca's Pope's Horatian Poems, an important study of the theological implications and strategy of five of the poems. The present book is an attempt to extend this frontier a little further, especially into such still uncharted territory as that of Satires II. ii (Bethel), I. ii (Sober Advice), Epistle I. vi (Murray), and the two imitations in the manner of Swift (Satire II. vi and Epistle I. vii). Three of its chapters have appeared, in slightly different form, elsewhere: Chapter I, originally titled "Pope and the Satiric Adversary," in Studies in
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