Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Two ways of refining myth in poetry--(1) by turning it into mere fancy, and the more ludicrous things into comedy; (2) by finding an imaginative or an ethical meaning in it 40
Of the heroic poetry in the Teutonic alliterative verse, the history must be largely conjectural. The early stages of it are known merely through casual references like those of...
8. Chapter 8The epic poetry of the Germans came to an end in different ways and at different seasons among the several nations of that stock. In England and the Continent it had to compete...
10. Chapter 10Romance in many varieties is to be found inherent in Epic and in Tragedy; for some readers, possibly, the great and magnificent forms of poetry are most attractive when from tim...
6. Chapter 6The title of Epic, or of "heroic poem," is claimed by historians for a number of works belonging to the earlier Middle Ages, and to the medieval origins of modern literature. "E...
9. Chapter 9It appears to be generally the case in all old epic literature, and it is not surprising, that the existing specimens come from the end of the period of its greatest excellence,...
2. Chapter 2Poems in dialogue, without narrative-- (1) Dialogues in the common epic measure--_Balder's Doom_, Dialogues of _Sigurd_, _Angantyr_--explanations in prose, between the dialogues...
1. Chapter 1Two ways of refining myth in poetry--(1) by turning it into mere fancy, and the more ludicrous things into comedy; (2) by finding an imaginative or an ethical meaning in it 40
3. Chapter 35. Chapter 54. Chapter 4