The Technique of the Novel; the Elements of the Art, Their Evolution And Present Use
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Continental Europe, and especially France, hailed him as the genius of the age. Diderot, the leading scholar and man of letters of the time, ranked Richardson by the side of Euripides and Homer. De Musset places "Clarissa" highest among all the novels of the world. The first chorus of Gallic enthusiasm found no dissentient voice. Even France's own son, Marivaux, who had preceded Richardson and who as an analyst of woman's heart is close akin to him, was rejected from comparison. He was dismisse...d with Provost and Madame Lafayette as being wholly inferior. Homer had created the epic, had been the voice of the body, of Nature, speaking the frank full joy in life. Euripides, the master of the drama, had given voice to the soul in its stem conflict against life. Richardson, in estab- lishing the novel, found a voice for the heart, with all its changing moods toward life, its hesitant ebb and flow, 193 THE TECHNIQUE OF THE NOVEL The women of England felt the power of Richardson, as we have seen ; and if their praise of their idol was less discriminating than that of France, it EmSfby^tfae ^^' ^^^^^ enthusiastic.
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