Item
An Essay on Fable
- Title
- en_US An Essay on Fable
- en_US Publication #112 of the Augustan Reprint Society
- Description
- en_US Robert Dodsley
- Creator
- en_US Dircks, Richard J. See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Welcher, Jeanne K.
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:24:14Z
- en_US 1991-09
- en_US 1965
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:24:14Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1764
- Abstract
- en_US A well researched introduction finds Dodsley's essay, attached to his edition of fables, the first comprehensive, original study of the genre in English. The essay itself surprises me with its sense and taste. Fable for Dodsley causes the reader to collect the moral. It is better not to express the moral; Aesop never did. If it is expressed, it is better put before the story, to put the reader on the scent. A fable must be clear, unified, and natural; the final criterion has Dodsley criticizing many popular fables. Apologues give beasts thought and speech but should not change their characteristics otherwise; foxes should not want grapes, and geese should not lay golden eggs. The style should be familiar, like LaFontaine's, not indelicate and low, like L'Estrange's.
- Identifier
- en_US 1134 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California,
- en_US Los Angeles, CA
- Subject
- en_US PN980.D7 1965 See all items with this value
- en_US Scholarly book See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books