Belianís de Grecia
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"For the Fable.--Take out of any old poem, history book, romance or legend (for instance, Geoffrey of Monmouth, or Don Belianis of Greece), those parts of story which afford most scope for long descriptions. Put these pieces together, and throw all the adventures you fancy into one tale. Then take a hero you may choose for the sound of his name, and put him into the midst of these adventures. There let him work for twelve books; at the end of which you may take him out ready prepared to conquer, or to marry; it being necessary that the conclusion of an epic poem be fortunate."--"A Receipt to make an Epic Poem" (1713) by Alexander Pope |
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Belianís of Greece is the eponymous hero of a Spanish chivalric romance novel, The honour of chivalry, following in the footsteps of the influential Amadis de Gaula. An English abridgement of this novel was published in 1673.
It is best known today because it was one of the books spared during the expurgation of Don Quixote's library in Chapter 6 of Part I of Don Quixote.
It is mentioned by Edmund Burke in the general introduction to his work On Taste.
In 1759, when Edmund Burke published the second edition of A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, he added a preface “On Taste.”
