ABSTRACT
In adopting Native English Satire a specific focus, this chapter overlooks a huge body of medieval and early modern English satire that complicate the perception of the period as dominated by a single, ideologically conservative imitative satiric ideology. In essence, poets and scholars of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance appropriated Horace as a highly privileged satiric model effectively closed to all interpretations but the unitary imperialistic ideology. As part of a centuries-old tradition, English Horatianism held an exalted place in that part of the literary field dedicated to consolidating and reinforcing England's "corporate identity". Horatianism serves Drant as the perfect medium both to motivate action against foreign influences and to endorse repressive policies enacted to ensure the stability and coherence of the empire of England. The Juvenalians' rejection of Horatianism, coupled with their advancement of a new satiric style with new targets, a new form of perceptual translation, and a correspondingly new ideological alignment.
