The HISTORY Of the ADVENTURES Of JOSEPH ANDREWS And of his F riend Mr. ABRAHAM ADAMS. Written in Imitation of The Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote . 1742 AUTHOR’S PREFACE. As it is possible the mere English reader [1] may have a different idea of romance from the author of these little [2] volumes, and may consequently expect a kind of entertainment not to be found, nor which was even intended, in the following pages, it may not be improper to premise a few words concerning this kind of writing, which I do not remember to have seen hitherto attempted in our language. The EPIC, as well as the DRAMA, is divided into tragedy and comedy. HOMER, who was the father of this species of poetry, gave us a pattern of both these, though that of the latter kind is entirely lost; which Aristotle tells us, bore the same relation to comedy which his Iliad bears to tragedy. And perhaps, that we have no more i...
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