An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad — John Shaqi
An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the DunciadHarte, Walter
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An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad
Harte, Walter
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Dunciad; Verse satire, English -- History and criticism
[6] Alvin Kernan, _The Cankered Muse: Satire of the English
Renaissance_, Yale Studies in English, CXLII (New Haven, 1959), pp.
55, 58, 62; Oscar James Campbell, _Comicall Satyre and Shakespeare's
"Troilus and Cressida"_ (San Marino, 1959), pp. 24-25, 27, 29-30.
[7] _De Satyrica Graecorum Poesi, & Romanorum Satira Libri Duo_
(Paris, 1605).
[8] J. F. D'Alton, _Roman Literary Theory and Criticism: A Study in
Tendencies_ (London, New York, and Toronto, 1931), pp. 356, 414 and
n.; George Converse Fiske, _Lucilius and Horace: A Study in the
Classical Theory of Imitation_, University of Wisconsin Studies in
Language and Literature, No. 7 (Madison, 1920), p. 443.
[9] Bernard Weinberg, _A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian
Renaissance_ (Chicago, 1961), II, 745. For similar appraisals of
satire, see also I, 148-149; II, 759, 807; and Puttenham, pp. 26-28.
[10] E.g., John Dennis, "The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry" (1704),
in _The Critical Works_, ed. Edward Niles Hooker (Baltimore,
1939-1943), I, 338; Joseph Trapp, _Lectures on Poetry Read in the
Schools of Natural Philsophy at Oxford_ (London, 1742), p. 153.
[11] _Essays upon Several Subjects_ (London, 1716-1717), I, 76.
[12] Paul F. Leedy, "Genres Criticism and the Significance of Warton's
Essay on Pope," _JEGP_, XLV (1946), 141.
[13] _Durgen. Or, A Plain Satyr upon a Pompous Satyrist_ (London,
1729), p. 48.
[14] "The Battel of the Poets," in _Tales, Epistles, Odes, Fables,
etc._ (London, 1729), p. 138n. Though the poem was first published in
1725, it was revised to attack _The Dunciad_; Cooke claims ("The
Preface," p. 107) that not more than eighty lines in the two versions
are the same.
[15] _Durgen_, pp. [i], 19, 40-41.
[16] _An Epistle to Mr. Pope, from a Young Gentleman at Rome_ (London,
1730), pp. 6-7.
[17] _The Progress of Wit_ (London, 1730), p. 31. Two months after
Harte's Essay appeared Hill's _Advice to the Poets_, which complements
the earlier allegory by urging Pope to shun "_vulgar Genii_" and
emulate "Thy own _Ulysses_" (pp. 18-19).
[18] Daniel Heinsius, "De Satyra Horatiana Liber," in _Q. Horati
Flacci Opera_ (1612), pp. 137-138; Sir Robert Stapylton, "The Life and
Character of Juvenal," in _Mores Hominum. The Manners of Men,
Described in Sixteen Satyrs, by Juvenal_ (London, 1660), p. [v];
Nicolas Rigault, "De Satira Juvenalis Dissertatio" (1615), in _Decii
Junii Juvenalis Satirarum Libri Quinque_ (Paris, 1754), p. xxv; and
André Dacier, _An Essay upon Satyr_ (London, 1695), p. 273.
[19] _Essays of John Dryden_, ed. W. P. Ker (Oxford, 1900), II, 75,
104-105; Howard D. Weinbrot, "The Pattern of Formal Verse Satire in
the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century," _PMLA_, LXXX (1965),
394-401; Causaubon, _De Satyrica Graecorum Poesi, & Romanorum Satira
Libri Duo_, pp. 291-292; Heinsius, pp. 137-138.
[20] _Essays_, II, 43, 107-108.
[21] See Weinbrot, p. 399.
[22] _Durgen_, p. 3.
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