Something Like Horace: Studies in the Art and Allusion of Pope Horatian Satires

253 Pages·1969·0.64 MB·English

by  John M. Aden

Something Like Horace : Studies in the Art
title:
and Allusion of Pope's Horatian Satires
author: Aden, John M.
publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
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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.
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Something Like Horace
Studies in the Art and Allusion of Pope's Horatian Satires
John M. Aden
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS · 1969
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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
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To
MARIE
in lieu of many ornaments
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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.

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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
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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