Catalogue of an Exhibition of Selected Works
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Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Selected Works: Of the Poets Laureate of England After the fleeing Daphne was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the pursuing god of the lyre, the laurel branch was assigned to Apollo as one of his attributes. Victors in the Pythian games held in his honor were crowned with it; it was the symbol of purification and atonement; it was used, like the olive, as a sign of truce; it was proof against lightning; and, Apollo being the god of poetry too, the Laurea Apollinaris was given for poetic merit. Ever since the days of Helicon and Parnassus, excellence in poetry has been crowned, at first literally and then figuratively, with laurel. The Romans adopted the custom, and it flourished in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, when learning was a craze and the recognition of learning the delight of princes and people. 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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