| | 1 | Author: | Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 | Add | | | Title: | The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN it was determined to extend the
present edition of Fielding, not merely
by the addition of Jonathan Wild to the
three universally popular novels, but by two volumes
of Miscellanies, there could be no doubt about
at least one of the contents of these latter. The
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, if it does not rank
in my estimation anywhere near to Jonathan Wild
as an example of our author's genius, is an invaluable
and delightful document for his character
and memory. It is indeed, as has been pointed
out in the General Introduction to this series, our
main source of indisputable information as to
Fielding dans son naturel, and its value, so far as
it goes, is of the very highest. The gentle and
unaffected stoicism which the author displays
under a disease which he knew well was probably,
if not certainly, mortal, and which, whether mortal
or not, must cause him much actual pain and discomfort
of a kind more intolerable than pain itself;
his affectionate care for his family; even little
personal touches, less admirable, but hardly
less pleasant than these, showing an Englishman's
dislike to be "done'' and an Englishman's
determination to be treated with proper respect, are
scarcely less noticeable and important on the biographical
side than the unimpaired brilliancy of
his satiric and yet kindly observation of life and
character is on the side of literature. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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