Author : Sidney Lanier
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ISBN 13 : 9781330688120
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (881 download)
Book Synopsis The Science of English Verse (Classic Reprint) by : Sidney Lanier
Download or read book The Science of English Verse (Classic Reprint) written by Sidney Lanier and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Science of English Verse If Puttenham in the sixteenth century could wish to make the art of poetry "vulgar for all English men's use," such a desire in the nineteenth must needs become a religious aspiration. For under our new dispensation the preacher must soon be a poet, as were the preachers before him under the old. To reach an audience of a variety so prodigious as to range from the agnostic to the devotee, no forms of less subtlety than those of tone can be effective. A certain wholly unconscious step already made in this direction by society gives a confirmation of fact to this view which perhaps no argument can strengthen: I mean the now common use of music as a religious art. Music already occupies one end of the church: the same inward need will call poetry to the other. How the path of spiritual development which has arrived at the former phenomenon must presently reach the latter will appear more clearly in the course of the demonstration to follow, which gives an account of the true relations between music and verse. 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.