An Anthology Of Jugoslav Poetry Serbian Lyrics

Author : B. Stevenson Stanoyevich
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484018616
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry written by B. Stevenson Stanoyevich and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry: Serbian Lyrics Give me the making of a nation's songs, and let who will make their laws, was the maxim of a Scottish patriot. We would prefer to modify this rule, and say, Give us the poems which the people make for themselves, and then we shall obtain a clear insight into the national character and learn What customs and laws they are likely to accept or reject. F olk-songs are the intimate expressions of the ideas of the people. What the comic drama is to the cultured, and the music hall to the ill-educated portions of urban popula tion, the popular song has been, and in some coun tries still is, to the rural peasantry, a true expo nent of their sentiments, though too frequently in accurate in statements of facts. Critics, as is well known, have censured Lord Macaulay for his indis criminate adoption of the vulgar and often malig nant rhapsodies sung in the streets of London. But the Russian bylina, collected by Danilov, Rybnikov, Sreznevsky and others, may be taken as furnishing unimpeachable evidence of the state of Russia during the invasions of the Mongols and Turks. The Jacobite poems give us the real feel ings of the people of Scotland for nearly an entire century. The popular and rustic strains which are handed down from the reign of Henry III have rehabilitated the memory of Simon de Montfort. 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.