Excerpt from Verse Satire in England Before the Renaissance
The difficulties under which the work has been done have been considerable. There are no satisfactory terminology or criteria that might serve as a basis for the treatment Of the Satire as a genre. Such terminology and criteria Chapter I of this book attempts to establish. Again, the very subject matter with which the author has had to deal was found chaotic and widely distributed, some of it hardly accessible. An effort has been made to render this confused mass in some degree more coherent and significant.
The amount of critical work on the Satire and on satirical literature in general, in the shape Of books, essays, magazine articles, etc., is enormous. Yet, either through their merely popular character, their restricted point Of View, or their desul tory method, the vast majority Of these studies was found un suited to the purpose Of the present work. Furthermore, no treatment Of the evolution Of the Satire as a genre in English has yet been attempted. Professor Alden's book, to which I gladly acknowledge my indebtedness, is an able and scholarly treatment Of one period-that Of the Elizabethan Satire. The present study in some measure leads up to Professor Alden's work, since it essays to trace the development of satirical verse in England from its beginnings down to the close Of its first period, in 1540.
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