He suggested that his “tragedy” conformed to the tragic dimensions of the epic and exemplified the manner in which tragedies necessarily were written in his unheroic day and age-as comedies and parodies. His preface to the burlesque The Tragedy of Tragedies: Or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (published in 1731) justified his using “lesser” genres like the burlesque. He followed this with numerous other works, including translations, satires, comedies, burlesques (absurd imitations), and farces (broad comedies). After graduating from Eton, Fielding entered society under the auspices of his cousin Mary Wortley Montagu, to whom he dedicated his first comedy Love in Several Masques (1728). He took the novel genre into new realms as openly serious and a valuable contribution to the English literary tradition. This scholarship would later give design to his novels, works he first described as “comic prose epics,” that is, hybrids that openly declared their artfulness. Henry Fielding was a strong student of the classics at Eton. The introduction to the work, or bill of fare to the feast. CONTAINING AS MUCH OF THE BIRTH OF THE FOUNDLING AS IS NECESSARY OR PROPER TO ACQUAINT THE READER WITH IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS HISTORY. Excerpt from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, BOOK I.History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding.
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