Philip James Bailey, Festus: An Epic Poem

Philip James Bailey

Philip James Bailey’s Festus was an artistic sensation in the Victorian period, a best-seller across the Anglophone world and broadly influential on other writers. This edition marks the first time it has been published in over 100 years, featuring the poem’s first lineation and a contextualization of its scientific and theological imagery. Scholars and students will benefit from a general introduction to Bailey’s life and work with a thematic guide to the poem that made him famous and appendices containing illustrations from period lithography.

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An Epic Poem

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Introduction
pp vii-xxxiii

Further Reading
pp xxxiv-xxxiv

A Note on the Text
pp xxxv-xxxvii

Works by Philip James Bailey
pp xxxviii-xxxviii

Festus: A Poem
pp 1-2

Dedication (1838)
pp 3-4

Proem
pp 5-14

Scene 1
pp 15-360

L’Envoi
pp 361-361

Appendix: Contemporary Reviews from the Press
pp 362-370

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