William Hogarth by Jenny Uglow

Author:Jenny Uglow [Jenny Uglow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571266654
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2010-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

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Noting the current vogues and snapping satires, and keen to upgrade his earlier Progresses, Hogarth could see that the private misery locked behind the superior smiles of a smart conversation piece could provide as powerful a story as the public spectacles of Bridewell, Bedlam, or the Fleet. The ‘middling sort’ who sobbed over Pamela and laughed and tutted through Congreve-like comedies, would go for such a tale. And if he handled it right and produced an elegant work – ‘polite’ in itself – he could sell it to the Quality as well. Now was the time to follow Pope’s command:

Come then, the colours and the ground prepare!

Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air;

Chuse a firm Cloud before it fall, and in it

Catch, e’er she change, the Cynthia of this minute.18

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