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Verse satire in England before the renaissance (1908)
Verse satire in England before the renaissance - 1908 Author:Samuel Marion Tucker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Prose . Direct method. Veise cording to the universal verdict of criticism, are satirists. " The formal (professed) prose Satire: The Praise of ... more »Folly, by Erasmus. The Dialogue: The Dialogues of Lucian, of Ulrich von Hutten. The Play: The satiric prose comedies of Moliere. The Novel: Gulliver's Travels, by Swift. The Tale: Candide, by Voltaire. The Essay: The satiric Essays of Addison. The satiric Burlesque of any prose genre: The Don Quixote of Cervantes, the Gargantua of Rabelais (parodies of the Ro- mance of Chivalry) ; The Sermon Joyeux (parody of the Sermon). " The formal verse-Satire: Satires of Horace, Juvenal, Ariosto, Boileau, Pope. The Epigram: The Epigrams of Martial. The Lampoon or Pasquinade: Lampoons by Defoe. The satirical Ballad and Song: The Ballads of the Civil War and Protectorate in England (163o- 166o) ; the Songs of Beanger. r The satirical Mock-Heroic: La Secchia Rapita of Tas- soni; Le Lutrin of Boileau; Hudibras of Butler; Don Juan of Byron. The satiric Tale: The satiric Fabliau; Chaucer's Friar's Tale. The Beast-Epic: Roman de Renart. The satiric Play:' The Plays of Aristophanes; The Alchemist of Ben Jonson. The satiric Fable: Fables of Marie de France; Fables of LaFontaine; Fables of Gay, of Prior, etc. The satiric Burlesque of any poetic genre: (Parody) The Morgante Maggiore of Pulci; (Travesty) The v. Virgile Travesti of Scarron. vVhat, then, is this satirical spirit that is said to bring all these great writers under the same category? Is it not, in the first place, as we have said, essentially the spirit of adverse or negative criticism, the spirit that prompts attack? Negative criticism destroys. Yet this, if the chief and essential quality of the satirical spirit, is still but one of its eleme...« less