The New Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Rhys, Ernest) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The New Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics The present anthology is a companion book to the old Golden Treasury, ranging farther back in time and farther forward, and adding many poets who have enriched the lyric tongue, omitted in those pages. Here the delicious early songs, in particular, written before or during Chaucer´s time, that give the true April note to our poetry, have been brought into the first group; while into the last come many of the poets who were still writing when Palgrave and Tennyson talked over the final limits of their selection. Two periods are thus added to the record, and the volume falls naturally into a division of six books - the First leading up to and away from Chaucer, ranges on to Tudor × the Second leads from Wyatt and Surrey to Shakespeare; the Third, from Ben Jonson to the last of the Lutanists, including Campion and Herrick; the Fourth gives the eighteenth-century men, but pauses at the advent of William Blake; the Fifth adds the poets from Blake to Shelley and Keats, who broke with the town poetry and brought the revolution; and the Sixth brings down the lyric line to those writers of yesterday who, if fate had been kinder, might have still been writing - John Davidson, Lionel Johnson and Francis Thompson among them. In this long succession we find the art passing through many hard seasons, and coming out of each with new vigour. The foreign invasions might seem at a first glance to threaten the English idiom; yet the cuckoo song was an old French strain, and Chaucer took music from Italy before Wyatt went there for his new instrument, and Shakespeare´s ear was affected by echoes of the Provengal love-poets. The straitening of the eighteenth century verse was followed by the lyric and romantic deliverance to be seen in Burns and Chatterton, Coleridge and Wordsworth. If the poets, of all writers, are those who make light of chronology, we can, as we do with the thrushes, mark when their note passes its spring innocence and grows ripe with summer, without losing our zest for their music. 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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