Spence's "Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men" : A Selection; Edited With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

Joseph Spence

ISBN 10: 0484206885 / ISBN 13: 9780484206884

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• Titolo: Spence's "Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men" : A Selection; Edited With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0484206885
• ISBN 13: 9780484206884
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Hervorragend
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Excerpt from Spence's "Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men": A Selection; Edited With an Introduction and Notes

IN the month of June 1726 there appeared. At Oxford and in London a small volume of criticism upon an important translation then recently published. The critic was Joseph Spence, a young clergyman, and Fellow of New College, Oxford: the book criticised was a no less important work than Pope's translation of the Odyssey; and the criticism, which took the not altogether unusual form of a dialogue, was entitled an Essay on Pope's Odyssey.1 In itself, this essay is not a very notable performance, although its fairness and candour were considerably in advance of the criticism of the day. The writer was too much a gentleman to stoop to the petty vilification and abuse then popular among critics, while his keen poetic sense would not allow him to pass unreproved those faults which were, as a rule, lost sight of in the enthu siasm of adulation. His criticism, says Dr. Johnson.

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