Lectures On Poetry And General Literature Delivered At the Royal Institution in
Lectures On Poetry And General Literature Delivered At the Royal Institution in
James Montgomery
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I shall particularise two only in this place. War; the war of glory, in which ambition tramples down justice and humanity, to raise a single tomb for a favourite hero upon a Golgotha of nations and war, the war of freedom, in which death is preferred to chains, and victory is the emancipation or NO. VI. THE THEMES OF POETRY. 237 the security of millions. War, also, assumes a thou- sand vulgar and atrocious forms; but these two alone are poetical ones. War has been the chief burden of epic poetr...y in ages past, however perils and labours, sufferings and conflicts, by land and by water, may have been intermingled with battle and devastation, according to the subject which was to be dignified and adorned above the strain of history, by the embellishments of fiction, and the music of verse. But the poets who have succeeded in this highest and most difficult field, are those who selected their heroes, and their scenes of action, from the traditions rather than the chronicles of times long antecedent.
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