An Essay on Satire, Particularly the Dunciad, by Walter Harte
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An Essay on Satire, Particularly the Dunciad, by Walter Harte- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .7" w x 6.00" l, .12 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 28 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Pope lite, and not at all bad By Christopher (o.d.c.) "Rules, and Truth, and Order, Dunces strike;Of Arts, and Virtues, enemies alike.... Ultimately, then, Harte seemed aware that the dunces pose a colossal threat, a threat which warrants Pope's numerous echoes of Paradise Lost. Harte's Essay, in fact, contains several echoes of the same poem. Though, like most of Pope's, these Miltonic echoes are given a comic turn which indicates a wide gap between the real satanic host and its London auxiliary, there is little doubt that Harte grasped the underlying seriousness of his mentor's analogies and his own."Like Blackmore's Essay upon Wit, this comes to Kindle via the Augustan Reprint Society. It is an essay in verse, by a hanger-on of Pope's, with a translation of the French poet Boileau's defense of the use of proper names in satire, which the editor tenuously suggests may be Pope's own veiled self-defense (although, oddly enough, he does not use the term "sock puppet").The poem, which I call "Pope lite," is actually very good, especially if you have a taste for the heoic couplet:The charms of Parody, like those of Wit,If well contrasted, never fail to hit;One half in light, and one in darkness drest,(For contraries oppos'd still shine the best.)When a cold Page half breaks the Writer's heart,By this it warms, and brightens into Art."Foe to the Learn'd, the Virtuous, and the Sage,A Pimp in Youth, an Atheist in old Age:Now plung'd in Bawdry and substantial Lyes,Now dab'ling in ungodly Theories;But so, as Swallows skim the pleasing flood,Grows giddy, but ne'er drinks to do him good:Alike resolv'd to flatter, or to cheat,Nay worship Onions, if they cry, come eat:Yet these love Verse, as Croaking comforts Frogs,And Mire and Ordure are the Heav'n of Hogs.Some write for Glory, but the Phantom fades;Some write as Party, or as Spleen invades;A third, because his Father was well read,And Murd'rer-like, calls Blushes from the dead.Yet all for Morals and for Arts contend----They want'em both, who never prais'd a Friend.More ill, than dull; For pure stupidityWas ne'er a crime in honest Banks, or me."I simply must regale the reader with a very apt excerpt from the "Boileau":"So true it is that the right of blaming bad Authors, is an ancient Right, pass'd into a Custom, among all the Satirists, and allow'd in all ages....But they who are so angry at the Critics, how comes it that they are so merciful to bad Authors? I see what it is that troubles them; they have no mind to be undeceiv'd. It vexes them to have seriously admir'd those Works, which my Satires have expos'd to universal Contempt; and to see themselves condemn'd, to forget in their old Age, those Verses which they got by heart in their Youth, as Master-pieces of Wit. Truly I am sorry for 'em, but where's the help? Can they expect, that to comply with their particular Taste, we should renounce common Sense? applaud indifferently all the Impertinencies which a Coxcomb shall think fit to throw upon paper? and instead of condemning bad Poets (as they did in certain Countries) to lick out their Writings with their own Tongue, shall Books become for the future inviolable Sanctuaries, where all Blockheads shall be made free Denizens, not to be touch'd without Profanation? I could say much more on this subject; but as I have already treated it in my ninth Satire, I shall thither refer the Reader."
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