Mingled with the original Enr the sakr of tln' rhythm whicli I Poetry of England has owftfl much to thp. We grasp most clearly the dominant English essence. In this Anglo-Saxon poetry of which I write Moreover, no national art is good which is not plainly that Selves, are the effectual powers which enable art to strive, to To better what has been done, which, though not art them. Sistency of national character, that clinging through all diffi-Ĭulty to the aim in view, that unrelenting curiosity, that desire Poetry has been of so high an excellence, - that steady con. Have been, not the cause of our poetry, but the cause why the In English character which, existing before the race was mixed, Here, too, weĬan best discern, and here isolate most easily, those elements Themes and the passion of its first melodies. Morial boughs which does not echo from time to time with the Music and there is not a murmur now of song in all its imme. Leave sT Here, like theoaks of Dodona, it began to discourse its Were set and here itsfirst_branches clothed themselves with The two hundred years between 670 and 870, the mots ofĮnglisli poetry, theroots of that vast over-sharlo>ving trpp.j With natural changes, up to the present day. Sentimental elements of the earliest poetry have continued, Opened out at this time from the stem, and that the ideal and Of the main branches of the tree of English poetry had already Greater when we consider this poetry in connection with the There is nothing like it - at thisĮarly period - elsewhere in Europe. Good examples for the time, of religious, narrative, elegiac,ĭescriptive, and even, in some sort, of epic poetry. These two centuries our forefathers produced examples, and Ous, well authenticated, and of a wide and varied range. The Welsh and Irish poems are few, problematical,Īnd their range is limited but the English poems are numer. Which belongs to so early a time as the seventh and eighthĬenturies. Vernacular poetry in Europe, outside of the classic tongues, Markable, it has its own special ipialities, and with the ex-Ĭeption of perhaps a few Welsh and Irish poems, it is the only. Tliat j)oetry isĬertainly not ol" a v»'ry line (piality, but it is Ireipiently re. 1 have not ])utĪside tlu life of the j)eople, the Latin literature, or the politi-Ĭal liistory of Kngland but I have only si)oken of them so farĪs tlu^y bore u|)()n tlu^ poetry or illustrated it. This book is mainly dedicated to that poetry. The Knglisli litei-alure of this j)eri()d is ciitiiely j)oetry, and In the intervids of yl^Hf red's wars, it will naturally rise on the Naturally falls on the lirst act of this history. TheĬountry of Englisli poetry had been Northumbria the country What had In-en was poetry tliis was prose. Had begun, and in a new land, and the King was himself its Kut l)ef()re ^Elfred died a n(!W English literature A few years after his accvession tlie last unplun-ĭered seats of learning wen^ destroyed. Literature, both Latin and English, had perished, after a career It begins in the older England over the sea. It is a pleasure to have at least brought to an end this tale of Life gives too short a time now for a long work, but
Hope, with perhaps too bold an ambition, to finish in the years It is the beginning also of a history of that poetry which, I This book is the history of the beginnings of English Poetry. "Īnd to the hole of the pit wheuce ye ure dinged. About … icon-addNote android4 Answer apple4 icon-appStoreEN icon-appStoreES icon-appStorePT icon-appStoreRU Imported Layers Copy 7 icon-arrow-spined icon-ask icon-attention icon-bubble-blue icon-bubble-red ButtonError ButtonLoader ButtonOk icon-cake icon-camera icon-card-add icon-card-calendar icon-card-remove icon-card-sort chrome-extension-ru chrome-extension-es-mx chrome-extension-pt-br chrome-extension-ru comment comment icon-cop-cut icon-cop-star Cross Dislike icon-editPen icon-entrance icon-errorBig facebook facebook-logo flag flag_vector icon-globe google-logo icon-googlePlayEN icon-googlePlayRU icon-greyLoader icon-cake Heart 4EB021E9-B441-4209-A542-9E882D3252DE Created with sketchtool.Full text of " The history of early English literature: being the history of English poetry from its beginnings to the accession of King Ælfred, by Stopford A.