Inchiquin the Jesuits Letters During a Late Residence in the United States of
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The unity of action has still some followers, left, though the fame of the Orlando Furioso proves how successfully even that may be violated. The unity of place in an epic is hardly practicable : and the unity of time is one of those relics of dramatic barbarity, which no great epic poet ever heeded, and which the first of dramatic poets has trampled into scorn. As the Iliad and Odyssey occupy several weeks each, the Eneid some months, and Paradise more than the allotted time, why should an Ame...rican poet, breathing the air of li berty, and proclaiming its high behests, fall down be fore this calf of criticism ! From this fundamental error, spring others, all conspiring to debilitate the poem. For the preser vation of the unities, as it should seem, the structure is but a conversation, and of course the interest to be excited in the characters is made distant and faint, in proportion to the duplicity of the fiction. Segnius irritant animos demisse per aurcm. Every page of the Columbiad reminds us that it is but a conversation piece between Hesper and Colum- 86 bus, in which all is past or future, and nothing pre sent or striking.
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