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<A FIELDING>
((henry fielding: joseph andrews edited by martin c battestin))
((oxford at the clarendon press 1967 ))
((in series: the wesleyan edition of the works of henry fielding))
((this version of computer readable text prepared and edited by))
((michael & jill farringdon, university college swansea, 1970))
<P 3><L 1>
((preface))
AS it is possible the mere English Reader may have a different
Idea of Romance with the Author of these little Volumes; and
may consequently expect a kind of Entertainment, not to be found,
nor which was even intended, in the following Pages; it may not
be improper to premise a few Words concerning this kind of
Writing which I do not remember to have seen hitherto attempted
in our Language.
The EPIC as well as the DRAMA is divided into Tragedy and
Comedy. Homer, who was the Father of this Species of Poetry,
gave us a Pattern of both these, tho' that of the latter kind is
entirely lost; which Aristotle tells us, bore the same relation to
Comedy which . . .
