{"product_id":"british-novelists-and-their-styles-being-a-critical-sketch-of-the-history-of-british-prose-fiction-classic-reprint","title":"British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction (Classic Reprint)","description":"Excerpt from British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHas 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.","brand":"Forgotten Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":35119641002029,"sku":"9780365312680","price":16.63,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39796577370157,"sku":"9781331125594","price":10.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9781331125594.jpg?v=1729145860","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/british-novelists-and-their-styles-being-a-critical-sketch-of-the-history-of-british-prose-fiction-classic-reprint","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}