twere impossible to find matter for so large a Poem, when
as before it's so ordered that the Unity of the whole is not broken, and
consequently divers Incidents it has bound together are not to be
accounted different Actions and Fables, but only different Parts not
finish'd, or entire of one Action or Fable entire or finished: and,
agreeable to this Doctrine, Rapin blames Lucan's Episodes as too
far-fetch'd, over-scholastic, and consisting purely of speculative
Disputes on natural Causes whenever they came in his way, not being link'd
with the main Action, nor flowing naturally from it, nor tending to its
Perfection.
And in this Action, the Poet ought, as Rapin tells us, to invert the
natural Order of things, not to begin with his Hero in the Cradle, and
write his Annals instead of an Epic Poem, as Statius in his Achilleid, the
Reason of which seems plain, because this would look more like History
than Poetry. It's more agreeable, more natural, in some Sence, to be here
unnatural; to bring in, by way of Recitation or Narration, what was first
in order of time, at some distance from that time when it really happened,
which makes the whole look unlike a dull formal Story, and gives more
scope for handsome Turns and the Art of the writer. Another Reason why a
whole Life is not ordinarily a proper Subject for Epics, is, because many
trivial Accidents must be therein recited; but if a Life can be found in
which is nothing but what's diverting and wonderful, tending besides to
the perfecting the main Action, and the Order of time revers'd in the
whole, the Case would be so much altered, that I think their Rules would
not hold.
For the Form of Epic, which comes next in view, 'tis agreed on all Hands
to be Recitation or Narration. Bossu says, The Persons are not at all to
be introduced before the Eyes of the Spectators, acting by themselves
without the Poet; not that he'd hereby exclude the Poet from introducing
the persons telling their own Story, or some one of them that of the
princip
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John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.