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According to Thomas Maresca, in "Absalom and Achitophel" John Dryden created, in the tradition of Spenser and Milton, what was to be the last verse epic of merit in the English language. Following its publication in 1681, what had been regarded as the major literary form in English entered a sharp decline that perished until epic, by parody of itself, evolved eventually, with many of its strains intact, into what has been the dominant genre ever since the novel - what Henry Fielding called "the comic epic in prose." The process by which this came about Maresca persuasively demonstrates to be an organic development obedient to its own inner laws, the theoretical understanding of the epic derived from medieval and Renaissance commentaries on Virgil carried within itself the seeds not only of its own demise but also of its rebirth, and offered the Augustans opportunities to explore alternative directions already potential within its form. The book is divided into four chapters dealing respectively with Dryden, Alexander Pope, Jonathan swift and Fielding, and attempts through close analysis of works having both parodic and serious relations to epic....
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- PublisherOhio State University Press
- ISBN 10 0814202896
- ISBN 13 9780814202890
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages248
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ISBN 10: 0814202896
ISBN 13: 9780814202890
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