xt7qjq0stw34_5045 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection John Abraham Heraud letter, clipping, and flier for The Judgment of the Flood text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. John Abraham Heraud letter, clipping, and flier for The Judgment of the Flood 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_58/Folder_78/Multipage27091.pdf 1851, undated 1851 1851, undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_5045 xt7qjq0stw34 ITAYMARKET.—1\ new play from the pen of Mr.
J. A. ilrl‘erand, entitled ‘A 'Wife or no \Vife,’ was
produced at this theatre on 310nday evening,
with Bliss Heraud, daughter of the poet, in the
chief female character. The play, we hear, was
successful. The Til/268 gives the following ae-
eount of the plot—“In Addison’s Spectator will
be found a letter signed ‘Octavia,’ in which
the writer sets forth her own very distress-
ing case. Octavia, it appears, having fallen
in love with a young gentleman, far her supe-
rior in point of fortune, consents to marry him
privately, and the ceremony is accordingly per-
formed by a proper minister, who makes out a
certificate in the regular form. To render the
marriage as secret as possible from the father of the
brhlegroom, the ladyis plac; d in acountryresidence,
Where she finds herself exposed to the obtrusive
attentions of a neighbouring squire. Finding his
advances ill received, this uncouth Corydon becomes
savage in his resentment, and tosses into the fire a
bundle of papers amrmg which is the marriage
certificate. This reckless act is the cause of Oc-
tavia’s distress; for her husband, to oblige his
father, marries another young lady, and even when
this second wife dies refuses to acknowledge the
first, who, having lost the precious document, has
no means of verifying her rights. The remodelling
of the Spccmlor story into the plot of ‘ ‘3er or no
\Vife’ is a new evidence of the poetical mind of
Mr. lieraud, and the eontrivance of several situ-
ations, as well as the clear conduct of the whole ‘
fable, shows great progress in technical skill since
the composition of ‘ Videna.’ Bliss Edith Heraud,
the daughter of the author, fought nohly through
the character of Olympia. In the onisc-cwscénc
1\Ir. llrluckstone displayed his . ccustomed liberality.
The exterior of the mansion in which the principal
action takes place, with the river in the distance,
is an excellent work of scenic art.” “It‘lt/ . 5‘

 

  

  

 In the Press, and will be Published in October,

IN A NOVEL, CHEAP, AND POPULAR FORM,

Price In Subscribe/w Fin» Shillings,

THE JUDGMENT OF THE FLOOD.
’i 9 13mm,
(NEW AND MUCH REVISED EDITION.)

BY JOHN A. HERAUD.

THIS poem was originally published in 183-1, in the expensive

form of imperial folio (price one guinea). Since that time

it has been growing in the estimation of poetical readers; but

the Author has delayed the publication of the second edition.
because of the extensive alterations which he had projected in
the general design and structure. These have, in fact. not

been completed until the present year (1851).

The proposed New Edition dill'ers from the first, in a
better arrangement of the materials~in the introduction of
new descriptions and episodes—in a thorough revision of the
text—in a needf'ul enlargement of the “ Book of Enoch "—~ and
in. the division of the whole into li‘our Parts instead of TM).
These amendments moreover include the Mythos 01’ a Political
Truth, Which hitherto has been corroborated by lilistorical
Facts, but to which an exception seemed of probable occur-
rence at the period when the poem was first published. Events
having since confirmed the principle, theAuthor has fulfilled his
original design, by giving now its type and symbol in the per-
son of Samiasa, whose character will consequently be found to

have received fuller development.

 

 OPINIONS OF THE PRESS (1843-5).

“ Talents and learning.”——— Quarterly Review.

“ [s an epic poem.”-—Blae/rwood.

“ "he noblest poem since the days of Milton."———1"r(z.s‘er.

“ 'l‘he Vast, the Sublime, the Terrible.”—'1'lze Times.

" Extensive learning, powerful reasoning, divine philosophy, eloquent lan-
guage, and splendid conceptions.”—rl[0rnin{/ Posl.

“ The spirit wherein an epic should be conceived.”—xI/llenamm.

" All is bold, sincere, philosophical, and clevated.”——A/las.

" 'l‘he voluminous description given of the Animal Creation, as collected
for the purpose of beingr deposited in the Ark, is a complete Naturalists

library in vigorous and picturesque verse.”——B7'ig/n‘0n Herald.

The poem has since been recognised by the highest class critic.-c. y.

" Deep, deep the heart; deep, deep its thoughts; deeper still its love * ’5‘
.\nd these have awakened a lofty spirit to breathe out his magnificent song.
* ‘4" * So utterance, deep burning, broke from the suppliant’s lips and
prevailed with God: and Tin-2 JUDGMENT OF THE FLOOD was visioned in
characters of fire. Poet, this homage hymn to thee: but the holier one to

Cod."-LE5TEE’s “Criticisms,” 1848.

Welorks by the 5am: (author.

TuE DESCENT INTO HELL, A POEM, 2nd Edition.
THE ROMAN BROTHER, a TRAGEDY.
. ORATION ON THE DEATH OF COLERIDGE.
LECTURE RN POETIC GENIUS AS A MORAL POWER.
. LIFE AND TIMES OF GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA.
. THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE, from 1839 to 1841, 6 vols, &c. &c.

 

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