Essays by Divers Hands, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from Essays by Divers Hands, Vol. 2: Being the Transations of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom The essays in this little volume range over a wide field, though all except one are concerned with our own country and its literature. The first, on "The English Ode," is the work of one who is a poet as well as a critic of poetry. He admits the difficulty of defining an ode, since our English usage has given the name not only to impassioned lyrics and heroic songs, but to the carefully chiselled and unemotional "Carmina" of Horace, which he never himself called odes. Horace himself is responsible for the delusion that Pindar wrote numeris lege solutis ;and our "Pindaric Odes," of which Dryden´s "Alexander´s Feast" is perhaps the finest, take advantage of the licence which Horace thought he found in Pindar, but forebore to imitate. Mr. Binyon reminds us how many of the greatest poems in English are odes - Milton´s splendid "Ode on the Nativity," Spenser´s twin marriage-poems, Marvell´s singularly virile Horatian "Ode in Honour of Cromwell," and Shelley´s "Skylark." He pays a just tribute to the best of Tennyson´s laureate odes, and to the fine poem of Meredith about France in 1871. 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.
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