Saul: A Drama, in Three Parts (Second Edition)

by Charles Heavysege, Douglas Lochhead (Editor)

Overview

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 döppelgänger - and in passages of sinewy verse written with a directness that anticipates E.J. Pratt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487589943
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	12/15/1973
Series:	Heritage
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	330
File size:	640 KB

About the Author

Charles Heavysege (1816-1876) was a Canadian poet and dramatist.

Douglas Lochhead (1922-2011) was a professor emeritus of Mount Allison University.