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<Author>Fielding, Henry</Author>
<Title>Joseph Andrews</Title>
<Edition>Martin C. Battestin, ed. Wesleyan Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967</Edition>
<Date>1741</Date> <doc>FieJoAn<doc>
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<div0 n=Preface>
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<p>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.
<p>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 his Iliad bears to . . .
