Lanterna Rally

Author: Francis T. Palgrave

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Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9781333003661

Excerpt from The Golden Treasury: Selected From the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged With Notes Of all literary types the lyric is perhaps the easiest to recognize and the hardest to define. If we say that the lyric is a song, - a poem which is written to be sung or which sounds as if it might be sung, we should have to include under our definition the old English or Scotch ballad, which has the suggestion of song, but which is narra tive and belongs rather to the type of the short story. Palgrave chose for his anthology those poems which turned upon a single thought, feeling, or situation. Yet this formula did not represent his notion of the lyric; for he adds that he excluded narrative, descriptive, and didactic poems, unless accompanied by rapidity of movement, brevity, and the coloring of human passion. The heart of his defi nition really lay in the last modest phrase, the coloring of human passion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.