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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II.?1. Lyra Heroica: a Book of Verse for Boys. Selected and arranged by William Eenest Henley. Sixth edition. London: David Nutt. 1900. 2. Patriotic Songs: a Book of English Verse. Selected and arranged by Abthur Stanley, with an introduction by the Right Reverend J. E. C. Welldon. London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited. 1901. 3. Pro Patrid et Regind. Being Poems from Nineteenth Century writers in Great Britain and America. Collected and edited by Professor Knight, St. Andrews. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons. 190J. 4. Battads of the Brave. Selected and arranged by Frederick Langbbidge. London: Methuen and Co. 1890. 5. Songs of England's Glory. London: Isbister. 1902. TTosT things in the world may be brought within the scope - of Drama, whether the theatre or the novel be the vehicle of the Muse. Subjects adapted to Epic or Lyrical Poetry are more rare. The toils and struggles of ordinary life, business, politics, law, commerce, afford no inspiration, although, as Shakespeare proved in his sonnets, they can be made to supply imagery. Walter Landor makes Pericles say to Thucydides, in the sweet presence of Aspasia, speaking of History, ' Let the books of the Treasury lie closed as ' religiously as the Sibyl's; leave weights and measures in ' the market-place, Commerce in the harbour, the Arts in ' the light they love, Philosophy in the shade; place History 4 on her rightf uJ throne and, at the sides of her, Eloquence ' and War.' The poetic Trinity is Wisdom, with Love on her right hand and War on her left. The Epic has its own themes, high and rare. There must be a labour so heroic as to afford a foundation for many a canto, whether it is the destruction of Troy, or the return of a man to his own country; or the foundation, by long effort and resistance to tempta...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217282369 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217282369 |
| Weight | 1.49 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.03 In |
| List Price | $31.73 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 464 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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