Abstract
FIELDING'S Works (1762) is a highly selective representation of his total oeuvre, omitting ten of his twelve political, social and legal pamphlets, most of his periodical essays, and almost all his poetry. The emphasis is on his novels, which occupy about three quarters of the Works, and his dramas, which account for nearly all the rest. For these exclusions, the editor, Arthur Murphy, pleads in his prefatory Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry that they were not deemed of a colour with works of invention and genius.1 Hogarth's frontispiece portrait, however, propounds the same editorial program much more deftly. It shows Fielding in the last months of his life, Aetatis XLVIII. Beneath him is a symbolic litter of objects representing his achievements in Law (on his left hand) and in Literature (on his right). These are divided by the sword of a gentleman and justice of peace, the pen and ink of a professional writer, and, in the background, the Scales of Justice. The Scales
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