Author : Frank Sidgwick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267805273
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)
Book Synopsis The Ballad (Classic Reprint) by : Frank Sidgwick
Download or read book The Ballad (Classic Reprint) written by Frank Sidgwick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ballad We are, then, to picture such a community, and picture it clearly, for we shall have much to do with it in considering the origin of folk poetry. We must sweep our thoughts clear of all conventional ideas, and of all acquaintance with trivial fond records. We must continually test our state of mind by confronting ourselves, for example, with such a question as What is a word We must emancipate ourselves from the literate habit of at once visualising a written or printed word, which is of course only a con ventional sign for the vocalised symbol of a thought. Obviously, the thought comes first in chronological order: but we are not dealing with the days before speech: next comes the sounded, spoken word mox daturus pro geniem vitiosiorem _the word expressed by ideogram, hieroglyph, or writing. It is the middle stage of these three which we have to imagine. 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.