[ilds] heraldic universe

[Bruce Redwine]

Now, Bill, don't keep us in suspense.


Bruce



On Jun 26, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Godshalk, William (godshawl) wrote:

> Yes, I thought I had Warton's volumes, but I have Ward's anthology. Not quite the same.
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> I shall have to see what's in the campus library.
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> W. L. Godshalk *
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> The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985) identifies Thomas Warton (1728-90) as professor of poetry at Oxford (1757-67), poet laureate, and author of a "valuable work," The History of English Poetry (3 vols., 1774-81).  The Companion also calls that work "the first literary history of any real scope."  I would say, Bill, that you're onto something re "heraldic" and that Lawrence Durrell could have well come across the treatise in the British Library.  Moreover, "prolixity" is an interesting word, rather uncommon, and one that I associate with Durrell:  "One knows that a god must be prolix . . . "  So there may well have been a connection.  I would like, however, to know more about Warton's context of "heraldic."
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> Bruce
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> On Jun 26, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Godshalk, William (godshawl) wrote:
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> 1774    T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. xi. 336   The pompous circumstances of which these heraldic narratives consisted, and the minute prolixity with which they were displayed.
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> Durrell was a student of poetry as well as a poet. Also he is known among Durrellians for his references to the Heraldic Universe -- which has been linked to various schools of thought.
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> I'm wondering if Durrell  might have come across the phrase "heraldic narratives" in Warton
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> and later began to think of his own narratives as heraldic, and the world that they evoke as his "heraldic universe."
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> Bill
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