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16506	Wesley, Samuel	Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)			.txt	text/plain	23710	1858	85	Nature of Epic, and that double, Fable and Poem: The Matter, some one In forming an Heroic-Poem, the first thing they tell us we ought to do, is the Fable and Soul of the Poem: And this he thinks Virgil did in this rather than true History, as the Matter of an Heroic Poem; and, if I as the Essential Fund and Soul of the principal Action in an Epic Poem. of being an Heroic Poem, because the Subject thereof is a true History. Heroic Poem; and the great Art of Thought and Expression lies in this, even Virgil's, his Thoughts and Expressions appear stronger than his, tho' an Heroic Poem, and has many great and beautiful Thoughts; but at the same use of his Thoughts in this following Work; his Poem being the most Now the Subject being so fit for a good Heroic Poem, I shall have the less	./cache/16506.txt	./txt/16506.txt