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Title: Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)

Author: Samuel Wesley

Commentator: Edward N. Hooker

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Series Two:
_Essays on Poetry_

No. 2

Samuel Wesley's
_Epistle to a Friend concerning Poetry_ (1700)
and the
_Essay on Heroic Poetry_ (second edition, 1697)

With an Introduction by
Edward N. Hooker

The Augustan Reprint Society
January, 1947
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INTRODUCTION

We remember Samuel Wesley (1662-1735), if at all, as the father of a great
religious leader. In his own time he was known to many as a poet and a
writer of controversial prose. His poetic career began in 1685 with the
publication of _Maggots_, a collection of juvenile verses on trivial
subjects, the prefac