An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad
By Walter Harte
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An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad - Walter Harte
Walter Harte
An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
AN
ESSAY
ON
SATIRE,
AN
ESSAY
ON
SATIRE,
DUNCIAD.
DISCOURSE on SATIRES,
By Monsieur BOILEAU.
An
ESSAY
ON
SATIRE.
A
DISCOURSE
OF
SATIRES
Arraigning Persons by Name .
By Monsieur BOILEAU.
F I N I S.
The Augustan Reprint Society
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK
MEMORIAL LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
INTRODUCTION
Table of Contents
Since the first publication of Walter Harte's An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad,[1] it has reappeared more than once: the unsold sheets of the first edition were included in A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose, Which Have Been Publish'd on Occasion of the Dunciad (1732), and the Essay is also found in at least three late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century collections of poetry.[2] For several reasons, however, it makes sense to reprint the Essay again. The three collections are scarce and have forbiddingly small type; I know of no other twentieth-century reprinting; and, perhaps most important, Aubrey Williams claims that "the critical value for the Dunciad of Harte's poem has not been fully appreciated."[3] Its value can best be substantiated, or disputed, if it is rescued from its typographical limbo in the collections and reprinted from its more attractive first edition.
Probably the immediate reason for the Essay was Harte's admiration for Pope, which arose in part from personal gratitude. On 9 February 1727, Harte wrote an unidentified correspondent that Mr. Pope was pleased to correct every page
of his forthcoming Poems on Several Occasions with his own hand.
Furthermore, Harte may have learned that Pope had petitioned Lady Sarah Cowper, in 1728, to use her influence to obtain him a fellowship in Exeter College, Oxford.[4]
But however appealing the Essay may be as an installment on Harte's debt to Pope, there must obviously be better reasons for reprinting it. Harte himself doubtless had additional reasons for writing it. To understand them and the poem, we must also understand, at least in broad outline, the two traditional ways of evaluating satire which Harte and others of his age had inherited. One of them was distinctly at odds with Harte's aims; to the other he gave his support and made his own contribution.
One tradition stressed the lowness
of satire, in itself and compared with other genres. This tradition, moreover, had at least two sources: the practice of Elizabethan satirists and the critical custom of assigning satire to a middle or low position in the hierarchy of genres.
From the time of Piers Plowman, it was characteristic of English satirists "to taxe the common abuses and