# Poems and translations

Author: Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73189

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Poems+and+translations+Synge&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I have often thought that at the side of the poetic diction, which everyone condemns, modern verse contains a great deal of poetic material, using poetic in the same special sense. The poetry of exaltation will be always the highest; but when men lose their poetic feeling for ordinary life, and cannot write poetry of ordinary things, their exalted poetry is likely to lose its strength of exaltation, in the way men cease to build beautiful churches when they have lost happiness in building shops.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-and-translations-73189/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-and-translations-73189/chapters/2/index.md)