He asked me for my advice about his epick poem--which I thought was the best subject for an epick, King Arthur and the Cakes or the story of Adam and Eve.
Then the boys flew at each other and began to fight; and at that moment John, who was thinking over his epick poem in the dining-room, rushed out and stopped them.
John says he can't make up his mind whether to write his epick poem in Latin or in Hebrew.
John said when his epick on King Alfred and the Lady of the Lake would be published, we should see who knew how to write Latin.
John is thinking of not writing an epick poem after all, at least not yet, but a history of the world instead.
But these two give so sweet a variety to the same Piece, when they are artfully blended together, that a good Tragedy or Epick Poem can never tire.
This in Philips is the Epick Softness, or what we call the Beautiful sometimes in Epick Poetry in Opposition to the Sublime.
Whether the Pastoral Fable should be simple or complex; and how it must differ from the Epick Fable.
Thus in the Epick and Tragick Poems, you draw the general Qualities of all Men's Minds.
But certainly, if long Descriptions are faulty in Epick Poetry, as they prevent the Curiosity of the Reader, and leave him nothing to invent, or to imploy his own Mind upon, they are in Pastoral much more disagreeable.
Tis strange to me that our Pastoral Writers should make no Distinction between their SOFT when they write Pastories, and when they write Epick Poetry.
They are widely different; nor can a Pastoral Image so many Things as an Epick Writer.
Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts, and, therefore, relates some great event in the most affecting manner.
By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions.
In the examination of epick poems much speculation is commonly employed upon the characters.
The ancient epick poets, wanting the light of revelation, were very unskilful teachers of virtue: their principal characters may be great, but they are not amiable.
The subject of an epick poem is naturally an event of great importance.
It is a drama in the epick style, inelegantly splendid, and tediously instructive.
In this address Dryden gave the first hints of his intention to write an epick poem.
Of the probable and the marvellous, two parts of a vulgar epick poem, which immerge the critick in deep consideration, the Paradise Lost requires little to be said.
He prefixed a very ample preface, in the form of a dedication to lord Dorset; and there gives an account of the design which he had once formed to write an epick poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince.
Epick poems have been left unfinished by Virgil, Statius, Spenser, and Cowley.
That great Man had a desire to give the World something like an Epick Poem; but he resolv'd at the same time to break thro the Rules of Aristotle.
Most of his puerile productions were, by his maturer judgment, afterwards destroyed; Alcander, the epick poem, was burnt by the persuasion of Atterbury.
Of his four epick poems, the first had such reputation and popularity as enraged the criticks; the second was, at least, known enough to be ridiculed; the two last had neither friends nor enemies.
There was another monarch of this island, for he did not fetch his heroes from foreign countries, whom he considered as worthy of the epick muse; and he dignified Alfred, 1723, with twelve books.
We all know Aristotle and Horace wrote upon Epick Poetry and Tragedy, yet neither of them ever wrote a Tragedy or Epick Poem; and perhaps neither of them would have succeeded if he had.
As to the Sentiments, which are a principal Part of Epick Poetry, they may be translated; we very probably think much after the same Manner the Greeks did, though we do not speak so.
How easy would it be to fill up such Critical Epistles as that in the Guardian with as just and curious Remarks out of the best Epick Poets!
I do not suppose, that a Man ever applied himself to Translation, if he felt in himself any of the heavenly Fire which animates a great Genius, or was ambitious of Fame by the Merit of an Epick Poem.
But then all the great Parts of Epick Poetry are lost to them, especially those that depend on the Dignity and Strength of Expression, which will not be pretended to be entirely preserved in the English Version.
I am persuaded that, had Sir Isaac Newton applied to poetry, he would have made a very fine epick poem.
As Unities in Epick works appear, So must they shine in full distinction here.
In the preface to A Short View of Tragedy (1692) he announced that "we begin to understand the Epick Poem by means of Bossu; and Tragedy by Monsieur Dacier.
I shall keep my self to Tragedy, which is the most noble Imitation, and principal Subject of this Treatise, all the Parts of an Epick Poem are comprized in a Tragedy.
Write a deep epick poem, and you may As soon delight them as the opera, Where they Diogenes thought in his tub, Never so sowre did look so sweet a club.
Virgil was indebted to Homer for the whole invention of the structure of an epick poem, and for many of his beauties.
For sometimes they treat of high and sublime things, like Epick Poets; what can be loftier than the whole Seaventh Idyllium of Bias in which Myrsan urges Lycidas the Sheapard to sing the Loves of Deidamia and Achilles.
Horace did ne'er aspire to Epick Bays, Nor lofty Maro stoop to Lyrick Lays.
De Nores, Schrevelius, and Desprez, think it refers to the humility of the elegiack stile and subjects, compared with epick or lyrick sublimity.
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