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• W2000478802 abstract "Bleeding Romans on Leaky Barges:Elijah Fenton's Cleopatra and the Process of Schoolboy Verse Samuel J. Rogal (bio) Throughout literary history, the poetic productions of the juvenile mind have been viewed from various rhetorical and generic perspectives but with essentially similar purposes and from fairly consistent points of view. We may recall D'Avenant's notion concerning the protection of the young genius, in that A slender poet must have time to grow, / And spread and burnish as his brothers do (Lloyd 180), as well as Dr. Johnson's initial, if not erroneous, reaction to Thomas Chatterton as the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things (Boswell 752). Coleridge, we remember, could admit to the positive reception accorded his 1794 collection only because those juvenile pieces were considered buds of hope, and promises of better works to come (Coleridge 110), while Whitwell Elwin writes of Gray's early command of poetical language as being the chief merits of these fruits of his Eton education, for there is throughout a want of substance in the ideas (458). Finally, there exists Swinburne's counterattack upon Richard Buchanan; although not totally applicable to the subject at hand, Swinburne's statement can glide easily into this discussion: The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laurelled ox (Swinburne 6:425). In general, the rhymed outpourings of schoolboys hold little to attract the attentions of serious readers. Although, for instance, the seventeen-year-old Milton's Latin elegies and his Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough send forth occasional beams of merit, they essentially represent exercises in the self-education of the poet; as such, readers may view them as minor but necessary junctures on the route toward artistic and intellectual maturity. Should a poet, unlike Milton, fail to reach that maturity, or at least fall short of producing a significant body of major poetry, then the juvenilia [End Page 123] drops quickly into the chasm of literary obscurity, the reputation of its creator following behind with equal rapidity. To the latter category belongs the focus of this discussion, Cleopatra. A Poem, as well as its writer, Elijah Fenton (1683-1730). A review of the life and work of Fenton requires little time or effort. He preceded Pope into the world by five years and departed fourteen years before him. Aside from his contributions to the translation of Pope's Odyssey (1726)—specifically Books 1, 4, 19, and 22—he produced nothing to distinguish him from the legion of intelligent Augustans capable of harnessing occasional thoughts to occasional lauguage, attaching them to occasional couplets, and driving them off to participate in occasional celebrations. Thus, for reasons known principally to himself, Fenton addressed An Ode to the Sun at and for the outset of 1707: Begin, celestial source of light,To gild the new-revolving sphere;And from the pregnant womb of night,Urge on to birth the infant Year. (Johnson, Works 10:391) His tributes to Queen Anne, Lord John Gower, Margaret Cavendish Harley, Thomas Lambard, Thomas Southerne, and Pope fare no better; they tend to underscore Johnson's conclusion that to examine his performances one by one would be tedious (Johnson, Lives 2:279). No less so would be an examination of Cleopatra —that is, if such an exercise were to go forth for no other purpose than to pass critical judgment upon the piece. However, if an analysis of the poem led to and produced something of value (or even of interest) relative to the process of juvenile verse as practiced in the late seventeenth century, then the tedium might have some merit to it. Let us, therefore, at least indulge in the attempt. Virtually everything we know about the history of Fenton's Cleopatra comes to us by way of an interesting labor of love bearing the anthological/genealogical title Elijah Fenton: His Poetry and Friends. A Monograph by William Watkiss Lloyd, M.R.S.L., Member of..." @default.
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• W2000478802 title "Bleeding Romans on Leaky Barges: Elijah Fenton's <i>Cleopatra</i> and the Process of Schoolboy Verse" @default.
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