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This made Poetry to necessary, before Letters were Invented, and so con∣venient afterwards; and shews, that the great Honor and general Request, wherein it has always been, has not proceeded only, from the Pleasure and Delight, but likewise from the Usefulness and [308] Profit of Poetical Writings.
This leads me naturally to the Subjects of Poetry, which have been generally, Praise, Instruction, Story, Love, Grief, and Reproach. Praise, was the Subject of all the Songs and Psalms mentioned in Holy Writ, of the Hymns of Orpheus, of Homer and many others; Of the Carmina Secularia in Rome, Com∣posed all and Designed for the Honor of their Gods; Of Pindar, Stesichorus, and Tyrtaus, in the Praises of Virtue or Virtuous Men. The Subject of Job, is Instruction concerning the Attributes of God and the Works of Nature. Those of Simonides, Phocilides, Theognis, and several other of the smaller Greek Poets, with what passes for Pythagoras, are Instructions in Morality: The first Book of Hesiod and Virgils Georgicks, in Agriculture, and Lucretius in the deepest natural Philosophy. Story, is the proper Subject of Heroick Poems, as Homer and Virgil in their inimitable Iliads and Æneids; And Fable, which is a sort of Story, in the Metamorphosis of Ovid. The Lyrick Poetry has been chiefly Conversant about Love, tho' turned often upon Praise too; and the Vein of Pastorals and Eclogues has run the [309] same course, as may be observed in Theocritus, Virgil, and Horace, who was I think, the first and last of true Lyrick Poets among the Latins: Grief has been always the Subject of Elegy, and Reproach that of Satyr. The Dramatick Poesy has been Composed of all these, but the chief end seems to have been Instruction, and under the disguise of Fables, or the pleasure of Story; to shew the Beauties and the Rewards of Virtue, the Deformitys and Misfortunes, or Punishment of Vice: By Examples of both, to Encourage one, and Deter Men from the other; to Reform ill Customs, Correct ill Manners, and Moderate all violent Passions. These are the general Subjects of both Parts; tho' Comedy give us but the Images of common Life, and Tragedy those of the greater and more extraordinary Passions and Actions among Men. To go further upon this Subject, would be to tread so beaten Paths, that to Travel in them, only raises Dust, and is neither of Pleasure nor of Use.
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William Temple: Miscellanea. The Second Part. In Four Essays.
I. Upon Antient and Modern Learning.
II. Upon the Gardens of Epicurus.
III. Upon Heroick Virtue.
IV. Upon Poetry.
The Second Edition. London: Printed by J. R. for Ri. & Ra. Simpson 1690, S. 179-341.
Unser Auszug: S. 307-309.
Editionsrichtlinien.
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