With Poet And Player Essays On Literature And the Stage
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The 7 98 With Poet and Player. first truly patriotic note, after Shakespeare, was struck by Thomson, in that 'Rule, Britannia ' which has survived, with wonder- ful freshness, the most laboriously hackneyed treatment much, no doubt, to the surprise of the author, if he is ever permitted to revisit the glimpses of the moon. The eighteenth century must have been, for the English people, an era of patriotic moments, or Thomson could never have been inspired to conceive and complete so sturdy an ut...terance of national feeling. This was the period in which Collins wrote his ' Ode to Liberty, ' with its invitation to the typical Englishman to ' read Albion's fame in every age'; and it is to Collins, also, that we owe that impressive dirge in which praise is given to ' The brave who rest, By all their country's wishes blessed. ' The wars with France at the close of the last and the beginning of the present century naturally did much to arouse the spirit of patriotism in our poets. How that spirit The Poetry of Patriotism.
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