Why Is It That Scotland, England, Ireland, Greece, Rome, Palestine, Arabia, and Young America Have All Had First-Rate Poets, While Many Other Countries Never Had Any? (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Why Is It That Scotland, England, Ireland, Greece, Rome, Palestine, Arabia, and Young America Have All Had First-Rate Poets, While Many Other Countries Never Had Any? In a well written criticism on a Scottish Poet which appeared in an American periodical many years ago. I met with this question - "How is it that the popular mind of the Scotch has produced so large a portion of the very best poetry?" The writer left the question unanswered. The inquiry struck me at the time, whether viewed in its national or philosophical aspect, as worthy of serious consideration: for I do not know any country in which poetry of such a high order has been produced by the popular mind, and where poetry, in all its excellencies, is so fully appreciated by the laboring people, as in Scotland. The poetry of a people is the cream of their thinking, and when the product is of a high order, it is natural to inquire into the causes: for no doubt, whether we can detect them or no, there are causes that account for this. But the attempt to reach these may be difficult, as this, if done at all. can only be successfully done by a thorough analysis of some of the deepest and nicest elements of national character. Every scholar must regret that something of this kind was not done by some master mind among the Greeks. Had Plato or Aristotle - either of whom was quite capable of the task, - investigated the causes whence sprung the wonderful poetry of Greece, the investigation would assuredly have thrown not only much light on the peculiar qualities of the poetry of that people, but would have also unfolded many of the deeper principles of the Greek mind, and explained not a few of the social conditions of Grecian Society. 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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