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The Mystification of George Chapman
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ISBN10: 0822309378
ISBN13: 9780822309376
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 18 1989
Pages: 188
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780822309376
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 18 1989
Pages: 188
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
George Chapman (1559-1634) continues to cut a significant figure as a dramatist and translator of Homer, but his reputation as a poet has fared poorly. The common critical view has made him notorious as a writer of difficult poetry, to the point of being considered guilty of deliberate and wanton obscurity. Gerald Snare argues that the fact of the matter is quite the reverse: his supposed difficulty as well as the moral and philosophical imperatives that are assumed to dominate his work are in fact the construction of critics.
The Mystification of George Chapman is an argument against the accepted view of Chapman's art. Snare examines Hero and Leander to determine the nature of its poetics and its relation to Mousaios and Marlowe; he reports on the imitative strategies of Ovid's Banquet of Sense and declares that it deserves a reputation quite different from that of the most difficult poem in the English language; and he refers to Chapman's own criticism found in the prefaces and notes often attached to his poems. The author finds Chapman's poems were responses to the critical pressures inherent in adapting Greek, Latin, and contemporaneous English authors to his art, and he disputes the modern critical tendency to assume that doctrine, and not poetic practice, was the primary source of poetic energy in the Renaissance.
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