Roadside Songs of Tuscany
Roadside Songs of Tuscany
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2$ truly known ; and not at all as the expres- sion of sentiment, fancy, or imagination.
And they correspond in this function, and in their resultant manner, very closely to early Greek ballad* in the lays of Orpheus and Hesiod, — and indeed to Greek epic verse altogether, in that such song is only concerned with the visible works and days of gods and men ; and will neither stoop, nor pause, to take color from the singer's personal feelings. I received a new lesson myself only a day or two sinc...e, respecting the character of that early Greek verse, from a book I was re-reading after twelve years keeping it by me to re-read, — Emile Boutmy's "Philosophic de T Architecture en Grfece," — in which (p. 121) is this notable sentence: "L'un des traits les plus frappants de la phrase homdrique, c'est que l^omission et le sous-entendu y sont sans exemple. Je ne crois pas qu'on puisse signaler dans Tlliade ou dans Digitized by Google 24 THE EDITOR S PREFACE.
rOdyss6e une ellipse, ou une enthym^me." But the difference between explicit and undisturbed narrative or statement of emo- tion, in this kind, and the continual hinting, suggesting, mystifying, and mag- nifying, of recent pathetic poetry (and I believe also of Gothic as opposed to Greek or pure Latin poetry) requires more thought, and above all, more illus- tration, than I have time at present to give ; and I am content to leave the verses preserved in this book to please whom they may please, without insisting upon any reasons why they should ; and for myself, satisfied in my often reiterated law of right work, that it is the expres- sion of true pleasure in right things — and thankful that, much though I love my Byron, the lives of Saints may be made vivid enough to me by less vigorous verses than are necessary to adorn the biography of Corsairs and Giaours.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
2$ truly known ; and not at all as the expres- sion of sentiment, fancy, or imagination.
And they correspond in this function, and in their resultant manner, very closely to early Greek ballad* in the lays of Orpheus and Hesiod, — and indeed to Greek epic verse altogether, in that such song is only concerned with the visible works and days of gods and men ; and will neither stoop, nor pause, to take color from the singer's personal feelings. I received a new lesson myself only a day or two sinc...e, respecting the character of that early Greek verse, from a book I was re-reading after twelve years keeping it by me to re-read, — Emile Boutmy's "Philosophic de T Architecture en Grfece," — in which (p. 121) is this notable sentence: "L'un des traits les plus frappants de la phrase homdrique, c'est que l^omission et le sous-entendu y sont sans exemple. Je ne crois pas qu'on puisse signaler dans Tlliade ou dans Digitized by Google 24 THE EDITOR S PREFACE.
rOdyss6e une ellipse, ou une enthym^me." But the difference between explicit and undisturbed narrative or statement of emo- tion, in this kind, and the continual hinting, suggesting, mystifying, and mag- nifying, of recent pathetic poetry (and I believe also of Gothic as opposed to Greek or pure Latin poetry) requires more thought, and above all, more illus- tration, than I have time at present to give ; and I am content to leave the verses preserved in this book to please whom they may please, without insisting upon any reasons why they should ; and for myself, satisfied in my often reiterated law of right work, that it is the expres- sion of true pleasure in right things — and thankful that, much though I love my Byron, the lives of Saints may be made vivid enough to me by less vigorous verses than are necessary to adorn the biography of Corsairs and Giaours.
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