page_title: Epigraph (literature)
hierarchical_section_title: Epigraph (literature)
caption_attribution_description: English: Facsimile of the original title page for en:William Congreve's en:The Way of the World, circa 1700. Taken from the 2000 New Mermaids edition, edited by Brian Gibbons. Published by A&amp;C Black, London.
context_page_description: In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section thereof. The epigraph may serve as a preface to the work; as a summary; as a counter-example; or as a link from the work to a wider literary canon, with the purpose of either inviting comparison or enlisting a conventional context.
  A book may have an overall epigraphy that is part of the front matter, and/or one for each chapter as well.
context_section_description: In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section thereof. The epigraph may serve as a preface to the work; as a summary; as a counter-example; or as a link from the work to a wider literary canon, with the purpose of either inviting comparison or enlisting a conventional context.
  A book may have an overall epigraphy that is part of the front matter, and/or one for each chapter as well.
caption: Facsimile of the original title page for William Congreve's The Way of the World published in 1700, on which the epigraph from Horace's Satires can be seen in the bottom quarter.
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