British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction —— Being a Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction

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ISBN: 9781331125594 出版年：2018 页码：308 David Masson Forgotten Books

Has passed will be found to be not unlike those through which Narrative Poetry has passed; and, in any particular country, the Prose Fiction of a. Period will be found to exhibit the characteristics seen also in the contemporary Narrative Poetry. Perhaps, however, in studying more closely the relation thus suggested between the two kinds of literature, it is better to use the general phrase, Narrative Poetry, instead of the special word, Epic. For, though Epic Poetry is a term sy nonymous at times with Narrative Poetry, there are many varieties of Narrative Poetry which we distinguish from what we call peculiarly the Epic. There is the metrical Fable, as in Gay and Lafon taine; there is the light, amorous or humorous story in verse, as in Lafontaine again, and parts of Prior; there is the Ballad; there is the long, romantic or pathetic tale, or the comic tale of real life, as in Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage and the rest of his poetry; there is the satirical bur lesque or mock-heroic, as in Butler's Hudibras there is the pastoral or idyllic phantasy, as in the poetry of William Browne or the Princess of Tennyson; and there is the sustained heroic and allegoric romance, as Spenser's Faery Queene. These, and still other forms of metrical narrative that could be named, we distinguish from the Epic proper, notwithstanding that in some of them.