Our Debt to Antiquity
Our Debt to Antiquity
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As writing had not been invented, memory was the only storehouse for all the stock of man's necessary knowledge, and metre and melody had to be called in as memory's hand- maids. Thus the whole circle of man's necessary knowledge began to be embodied in the epos the exploits of the gods and of ancestors, prophecies, laws, exhortations regarding life and work. Hence it was that epic poetry parted into two branches the heroic and the didactic. The development of music led to the complication of m...etres ; from the epos developed lyrical poetry with all its 130 Our Debt to Antiquity various branches elegy, ballad poetry, the lay, the ode. Lyrical poetry spread its influence ever wider and wider, until at last it absorbed the epos and produced in common with it the drama, tragedy, and comedy. But at the same time the art of writing was becoming more and more common. The result is prose. Prose now com- petes with poetry as the storehouse of indispens- able knowledge. It is still felt, however, that poetry commands advantages denied to prose ; its metrical character corresponds more closely with the emotional moods of the human soul than the even flow of its rival.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
As writing had not been invented, memory was the only storehouse for all the stock of man's necessary knowledge, and metre and melody had to be called in as memory's hand- maids. Thus the whole circle of man's necessary knowledge began to be embodied in the epos the exploits of the gods and of ancestors, prophecies, laws, exhortations regarding life and work. Hence it was that epic poetry parted into two branches the heroic and the didactic. The development of music led to the complication of m...etres ; from the epos developed lyrical poetry with all its 130 Our Debt to Antiquity various branches elegy, ballad poetry, the lay, the ode. Lyrical poetry spread its influence ever wider and wider, until at last it absorbed the epos and produced in common with it the drama, tragedy, and comedy. But at the same time the art of writing was becoming more and more common. The result is prose. Prose now com- petes with poetry as the storehouse of indispens- able knowledge. It is still felt, however, that poetry commands advantages denied to prose ; its metrical character corresponds more closely with the emotional moods of the human soul than the even flow of its rival.
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