Saul - A Drama, in Three Parts (Second Edition) (Paperback)

Charles Heavysege's chief and best-known work, the long-verse drama and tragedy Saul, was published in Montreal in 1857. Coventry Patmore, reviewing Saul in the North British Review, ranked it as the greatest English poem published outside Great Britain. Hawthorne, Emerson, and Longfellow were all enthusiastic in their praise, and the play went into three editions. Saul is a drama of 135 scenes containing the remarkable character of the fallen angel Malzah, who has been compared by critics to Shakespeare's Caliban. Itis a powerful presentation of the tormented soul caught in a world of order and universal degree. Its main interest is to be found in the psychological frankness - Saul's recognition of his demon resonates with the deeper implication of the recognition of the doeppelganger - and in passages of sinewy verse written with a directness that anticipates E.J. Pratt.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	December 1973
Authors:	Charles Heavysege
Editors:	Douglas Lochhead
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	332
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-9156-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	1-4875-9156-X
Barcode:	9781487591564

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