Series Two:
Essays on Poetry


No. 3


Rapin’s De Carmine Pastorali,
prefixed to Thomas Creech’s translation
of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684)


With an Introduction by
J. E. Congleton
and
a Bibliographical Note




The Augustan Reprint Society
July, 1947
Price: 75c

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GENERAL EDITORS

Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
Edward Niles Hooker, University of California, Los Angeles
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles


ADVISORY EDITORS

Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington
Louis I. Bredvold, University of Michigan
Benjamin Boyce, University of Nebraska
Cleanth Brooks, Louisiana State University
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
James Sutherland, Queen Mary College, London




Lithoprinted from copy supplied by author
by
Edwards Brothers, Inc.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
1947

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Introduction

de Carmine Pastorali: the first Part

de Carmine Pastorali: the second Part

de Carmine Pastorali: the third Part

Errata

Bibliographic Note

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INTRODUCTION

Recent students of criticism have usually placed Rapin in theSchool of Sense. In fact Rapin clearly denominates himself a memberof that school. In the introduction to his major critical work,Reflexions sur la Poetique d'Aristote (1674), he states thathis essay "is nothing else, but Nature put in Method, and goodSense reduced to Principles" (Reflections on Aristotle'sTreatise of Poesie, London, 1731, II, 131). And in a fewpassages as early as "A Treatise de Carmine Pastorali" (1659), heseems to imply that he is being guided in part at least by thecriterion of "good Sense." For example, after citing severalwriters to prove that "brevity" is one of the "graces" of pastoralpoetry, he concludes, "I could heap up a great many more things tothis purpose, but I see no need of such a trouble, since no man canrationally doubt of the goodness of my Observation" (p.41).

The basic criterion, nevertheless, which Rapin uses in the"Treatise" is the au

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